User:Briannathefox

About me
I am Brianna Keys. I am currently a third year psychology student who is studing Motivation and Emotion.

As a part of this particular unit we are required to complete a textbook chapter. All textbook chapters being written by students for a unit in semester 2: Book 2019

Social contributions
This section will summarise any edits or social contributions made to textbook chapters within Book 2019.

Topic Development
Edit One

This edit was conducted to a current book chapter regarding guilt being written as a part of the Book for 2019. It explained that some internal sources had been linked in this chapter to assist with the topic development. Two internal sources were linked: (1) a previous chapter on the topic of guilt and (2) effective apology chapter as there is some overlap being made between apology and the emotion of guilt. Two possible examples and case studies were provided for the concept of guilt surrounding areas such as the criminal justice system and the concept of racial guilt (or more specifically the idea of 'white guilt'). Several resources were recommended for the individual to investigate further into these ideas as well.

Edit Two

Addition of two internal sources being added to this textbook chapter to assist in jump starting the chapters 'see also' section.

Book Chapter
Edit One

This edit started off the internal link section for a book chapter topic surrounding Indigenous Australian's and trans-generational trauma. The edit was to create a link to a previous book chapter written about the stolen generation and emotion. It was suggested that they would be two chapters to link together as there may be shared information and resources.

Edit Two

This edit was to correct the over capitalisation of heading titles throughout the chapter. A previous comment was left pointing out the error but now the proper corrections have been made.

Edit Three

Added in some additional internal links to the Pathological Lying chapter for 2019 with the Honesty chapter being written. Thought it would be good to provide the polar opposite perspective of what motivates people to be honest rather than lie.

Edit Four

Minor edit to a textbook chapter correcting grammatical errors by adding in commas and correct some minor spelling mistakes. A review and compliment was left on the discussion page as the textbook chapter provides a good linking between theory and case studies.

Edit Five

After reviewing the textbook chapter it was noticed that one way to assist the reader would be to make the quiz sections of the chapter stand out a bit more from the actual content. It was suggested in the discussion section that a coloured box be used to demonstrate this point. A small tutorial was left as to how to complete this process and an example was also completed to demonstrate the point being made.

Edit Six

Reviewed a textbook chapter that was unfinished. Noticed they were lacking some external resources so added in an external resource in the forms of an informative video about the general mental disorder they are writing about.

Edit Seven

Minor editing to a textbook chapter correcting grammatical errors by adding in commas and correcting some minor spelling mistakes.

Personal book chapter
This is the chapter I personally signed up for to write for the motivation and emotion unit. The chapter is about Effective Apology and the main question to be answered in this chapter is 'What makes an effective apology?'. The reason I chose this particular chapter was due to my curosity surrounding such a question. Are there relevant steps to an apology? Does an apology formula exist? How do you know if an apology has been effective? I was motivated to write this chapter as I wanted to help quench my own curosity but researching to actually answer my own questions surrounding such a topic. I look forward to researching more into such a topic to uncover the true meaning of what an effective apology is and what makes an effective apology?

Topic development plan
To provide an overview this is a general plan for specific sections of the book chapter regarding the topic of an effective apology. This topic development plan was necessary to showcase that specific skills had been learnt in order to progress further into developing the complete book chapter. This will be used as a part of an assignment piece for the relevant unit. Excluded from this brief summary is the overview and conclusion sections from the chapter as they are a part of the typical template used. Instead what is provided is a brief summary of the personally chosen sections of the chapter with a short summary on what the chapter will cover.

Defining an effective apology
This section of the book chapter was several key factors before they were discussed in depth. The following questions were answered within this section: what is an apology?; what the process of an apology? and what is an effective apology?

Key ingredients for an effective apology
This section of the chapter will uncover several identified stages to an effective apology. The primary focus of the chapter in order to answer the proposed question of 'What are the ingredients for an effective apology?'. This section will aim to discuss proposed theoretical ideas of what formulates an effective apology.

Case Study: Kevin Rudd's apology to the Australian Indigenous People's
This section will breakdown Kevin Rudd's apology to the Indigenous individuals of Australia in regards to the theory of an effective apology and analyise if this apology was well received or not. This section may also provide a more indepth look into the idea of claiming responsibility for mistakes and behaviours that have been previously made as well as the importance of remorse for apologies to be considered effective.

The importance of an effective apology
This section will provide real life examples of how effective apologies can create a positive impact in a number of different external settings. It will provide some in-depth examples of how an effective apology can be a crucial skill to possess. For example apologies are considered an important part of the criminal justice system as it showcases a sign of remorse.