• Explain the risks of not reporting the results of your forensic assessment findings accurately. Provide specific examples.
• Given the nature of the “exciting and high profile” cases in which forensic psychology professionals are involved, explain potential breaches of confidentiality that could violate ethical guidelines. Provide specific examples.

1. From Chapter 3 in the webtext, what did you learn about the big 5 personality traits?

2. Consider Gloria and Lakeisha’s different approaches to the project. On which one of the Big 5 personality traits do they most differ? How do they differ?

3. Chapter 6 in the webtext focused on emotions. Using what you learned, give advice to Gloria on how she can identify and regulate her own emotions so that she can stick with this project, and be successful.

4. If you were in this situation, how confident are you that you could successfully resolve a workplace conflict like the one that Gloria faced? What past experiences or knowledge influence your answer

1. You take an infant’s toy and place it behind the couch. The infant starts crying because he thinks it is gone.

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2. There are two glasses of milk sitting on the table. One is a tall, thin glass and the other is a short, fat glass; both have the same amount of milk in them. When given a choice, Tommy takes the tall, thin glass.

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3. You have two piles of coins. One pile has a dime and the other pile has 10 pennies. Susie chooses the pile with the 10 pennies because she thinks it has more money.

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4. You ask the children in kindergarten to look at the problem on the board and explain what the completed answer would be. The problem is: 2 + 2 = 4 and 4 – ___ = ___.

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5. Stephanie is sitting at the end of a table and is looking at a picture of the sun above the mountains. Kelley is sitting half way down the side of the table and she sees in the picture the sun to the right of the mountains. Stephanie says that her answer of the sun sitting above the mountains is correct and doesn’t see how Kelley’s answer could be right.

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6. Seth and Tim are in class and are asked to explain how to solve the problem of getting from one house to another that is across town when they only have 15 minutes to get there. Seth and Tim think about it and discuss the streets in town and the traffic situation at various times throughout the day. They come up with an answer without actually having to drive both distances to see which one is faster.

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