You Are an Upperclassman Working with a Faculty Member in Your

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Essay

You are an upperclassman working with a faculty member in your major discipline.You and the faculty member have been discussing how to help freshmen succeed in their classes.One of the pieces of information that your professor keeps bringing up is that students should spend at least three hours studying outside of class for each hour they spend in class.This amounts to nine hours a week for a typical three-hour course.To that end,you decide to construct a force field analysis on that idea to see how you might help freshmen improve.Construct a force field analysis on the topic described in the story.Once you have constructed the analysis,write a brief statement explaining what strategies you might take to help motivate students to study more.

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Definitions:

Successful Resolution

Refers to the effective resolution of problems or conflicts, resulting in a satisfactory outcome for all parties involved.

Oedipus

In psychoanalytic theory, a complex of emotions aroused in a young child, typically around the age of 4, by an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex and a wish to exclude the parent of the same sex.

Electra Complex

In Freudian psychoanalytic theory, a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father.

Identification

Defense mechanism in which a person tries to become like someone else to deal with anxiety.