Psych 409a (Monday)  Spring  2007   G26
Dr. Leon James, Instructor, University of Hawaii
The Web address of this document is: 
    www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy26/409a-g26-report1.htm

In your word processor create a file. Save the file as a Web Page with the file name: 
yourlastname-409a-g26-report1.htm
Do not use spaces or upper case letters in any file or folder name. Make sure you use the hyphens in the file name, as indicated. Now the file is saved as a Web page and when you complete the report you can just upload it. Do not upload the default .doc file. You must save it as a Web page so that it has the appropriate appearance in your Web browser after you upload the file. Once uploaded look at the file with your Web browser by going to your folder on the Web. See FTP Uploading instructions from the Class Home Page.

Before you begin typing your report, add the required title and links as shown between the horizontal lines below:

Report 1
Driving Psychology As I Understand It
By Your First and Last Names or Pseudonym

Must reminders:

1. No paragraph can be more than about 7 lines long or 150 words
2. All paragraphs must be separated by a blank line. (just one, not two)
3. The report must be single spaced.
4. All links must be tested after uploading to make sure they work.
5. Your report must be at least 15 pages long single spaced text. Use the Print Preview command under the File Menu to count the pages)
6. All the specified Section Headings in Bold must be clearly visible in your report, as well as the sub-headings in bold that you are to make up, as explained below
7. The report has the two required links at the very bottom of the file, and they must work so you have to test them.

Section A: How I Understand the Two Stages of a Driving Personality Makeover Plan

Consider Table 3: Two Stages of a Driving Personality Makeover Plan in the Lecture Notes, in the Section on Driving Psychology Theory and Charts at  www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy26/409a-g26-lecture-notes.htm#charts   Read the article on driving taxonomy from which the Table is taken by clicking on the link provided there.

(a) Type a sub-title (in bold) for this sub-section. Give a brief Introduction stating what your report is for (e.g., type of course this is, where, who the instructor is, what the generational curriculum is, these are answers to take home questions for a report to be posted on the Web, etc.).  Then explain where the Table comes from -- give the link.

(b) Type a sub-title (in bold) for this sub-section. In your own words summarize what the Table is presenting. Do not paste the Tables in your report, but do give a link to the Charts section in the Lecture Notes (as above).

(c) Type a sub-title (in bold) for this sub-section. Explain the two-stage process to a friend or two. Describe their reaction. What is your conclusion? Would they be willing to try it? Why or why not? What needs to change?

Section B: My Understanding of Driving Psychology

Using your own words,

(a) Type a sub-title (in bold) for this sub-section. Describe the main principles of driving psychology. Indicate where your information comes from and provide a link.

(b) Type a sub-title (in bold) for this sub-section. How does driving psychology relate to other psychology subjects you studied? Give some specific examples to illustrate the comparison (e.g., learning theory, group norms and attitudes, media and peer influences, resistance to change, developmental stages of morality, gender differences in aggressiveness, self-serving bias, attribution error, competitiveness, stress factors, drug addiction, multitasking, skills training, competence, performance measures, etc. etc.). Look up some of these in your other textbooks and you'll see.

(c) Type a sub-title (in bold) for this sub-section. Investigate to see if driving behavior is mentioned in other psychology areas or textbooks: e.g., Introductory Psychology, Social Psychology, Learning Theory, Personality, Developmental, etc. What is your conclusion about how much attention driving behavior gets from psychologists? If you can, ask some other psychology instructors about this and see how they explain the place of driving behavior in research and theory. What is your conclusion? What needs to change?

Section C: My Field Data on the AWM Approach to Driver Self-Improvement

(a) Type a sub-title (in bold) for this sub-section. Inspect Table 4 at  www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy26/409a-g26-lecture-notes.htm#Charts Now look up the AWM method in Chapter 6 of our Road Rage and Aggressive Driving Textbook. In your own words explain this method -- what it is for, what it is, and for whom it is. Be sure to explain the three domains of behavior of driver, giving specific examples of your own (not in the Table or Chapter).

(b) Type a sub-title (in bold) for this sub-section. Find a person who would be willing to try this approach for one or more trips. Or else, do it yourself. Make sure you focus on just one behavior -- either affective, cognitive, or sensorimotor. Explain what happened in detail. What is your conclusion?

Section D: Student Generational Reports on Driving Psychology

(a) Type a sub-title (in bold) for this sub-section. Go to the link on the Class Home Page for All Prior Generations . You will find links to student reports from the early generations G1 to G17 (do not go beyond). Analyze the topics across the generations from G1 to G17 by sampling enough reports so you can make your observations. Describe the topics so readers who did not read them can get a good idea of what they are.

(b) Type a sub-title (in bold) for this sub-section. Comment on your thoughts about the Generational Curriculum approach used in this course over the years. What are its strengths and weaknesses? What would you recommend as improvements?

Section E: Advice to Future Generations

(a) Type a sub-title (in bold) for this sub-section. Summarize for future generations what you have learned so far by studying driving psychology. You might be able to list principles and orientations that summarize for you some of what driving psychology is as you understand it and experience it.

(b) Type a sub-title (in bold) for this sub-section. What might be the benefit of this to you? Are any of the concepts or ideas presented in the course difficult for you to accept, and why? How would you apply, modify, or extend the ideas in the course?

(c) Type a sub-title (in bold) for this sub-section. Give advice to future generations who will be doing a similar report in the future. Give them tips on how to do a good report of their own. Tell them what they can benefit from doing all the work this course requires.

Section F: Links (make sure they work online after uploading)

(the two required links at the very bottom of the file)

My Home Page:   www.soc.hawaii.edu/leon/409af2006/lastname/lastname-home.htm
G26 Class Home Page:  www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy26/classhome-g26.htm

Inspect your report in your Web browser after uploading, and make sure of these seven things:

1. No paragraph is more than 7 lines long or 150 words
2. All paragraphs are separated by a blank line.
3. The report is single spaced.
4. All links work.
5. Your report is at least 15 pages long (use Print Preview under the File Menu to count the pages)
6. It has the Section Headings in Bold specified in these instructions, as well as the sub-headings in bold that you are required to make up.
7. It has the two required links at the very bottom of the file, and they work.

Send email to Dr. James at leon@hawaii.edu with "Report 1 uploaded" in the Subject Line and the Web address of the report in the body of the email (first make sure it works).

Your Report 1 is now complete and ready to be uploaded or published on the Web. Congratulations! You have proven you can gain technical competence in Web publishing and report writing. Now your valuable research report will be used by future generations, by students from other places surfing the Web or using search engines, by researchers interested in driving behavior, and by the general public looking for ways to improve their driving skills.

You will be publishing two reports on the Web this semester as part of your research contribution to the generational curriculum on driving psychology.  Thousands of people on the Web find these generational student reports through Web search engines when they are looking for topics on driving and traffic, road rage and the threefold self of the driver. Your contribution will contribute, first, to yourself for improving your driving personality and your information literacy skills; second, for future students who will be reading your reports, and third, for the public at large. Your research, observations, and conclusions will be beneficial to others who will read your reports in the ensuing years. Long after you're no longer a student, your generational reports will still be serving the public on the Web.

Note on Privacy: Students can use a pseudonym on their reports instead of their real name. Students who publish their reports on the Web can delete their reports after being graded. They can also request to have their reports deleted from the Web after the semester at any time in the future by emailing Dr. James leon@hawaii.edu . Usually the request is honored on the same day it is received. Students can also submit their reports in typing, privately to the instructor instead of publishing them on the Web. This will not affect their grade.

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