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Adolescence, 9/e
John W. Santrock, University of Texas, Dallas

Achievement, Careers, and Work

Taking It to the Net

1. There are a number of career tests that are used as an aid in helping people select potential careers. But, if you took several would you get the same recommendations? How well do they do for you? What cautions would you advise friends taking such tests to keep in mind?

http://career.missouri.edu/

http://www.jobhuntersbible.com/counseling/ctests.shtml

2. One of your concerns as an undergraduate member of the College Curriculum Committee is making education relevant to the world of work that you and the other students will be entering. How would you suggest the curriculum be structured in order to maximize its relevance to the world of work?

http://www.funderstanding.com/school_to_work.cfm

3. The study of motivation is an important component of explaining human behavior. How might the study of needs, attribution theory, and other aspects of motivation be inform the study of personality?

http://www.valdosta.peachnet.edu/~whuitt/psy702/regsys/maslow.html (click on the new site)