Research and Working EQ

1.  What is your working EQ?
     How are psychology and criminology used within the FBI?

2.  What is a possible answer to your working EQ?

• Psychology can be used to create psychological profiles, these profiles can assist FBI team in catching criminals or obtaining suspects. 
• Criminology assists agents in gaining a different point of view on their cases, this insight can lead to more success in closing cases, hostage negotiations, and much more. 

3.  What is the most important source you have used that has helped you come up with an answer to your working EQ?
    The most important source i have used to come up with answers to my EQ is Mind Hunter by John Douglas. Not only did this book provide a direct point of view but it showed the entire process of psychology and criminology being used within the FBI and why.

4.  Who is your mentor, or where are you volunteering, and how does what you are doing relate to your working EQ?

     My mentor is Karen Martin from the FBI, she has been very helpful in showing me how the FBI works and what it does. She has much interest in psychology like I do and because of this has been able to assist me in finding research and other people to talk with. 

Independent Component 1 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

For my Independent Component I plan to add an additional outlet for research to my topic by working with professors of Criminology and Psychology. Hopefully, working with people in the field can not only provide more background but a mentor as well. Through this I hope to gain more knowledge in my topic and more connections with people that can assist me. Learning from these sources will give greater insight and make it easier to retain the information, than simply reading from articles and books. With another mentor I would like to experience more and go more into the general idea of my EQ and not just the FBI. 

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

In order to show evidence of my 30 hours I will most likely provide photos, if there is anything of interest to photograph. Working with a new mentor I will also gain a lot of new knowledge that will indirectly show evidence of my 30 hours. 

3.  And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

My Independent Component will help explore my topic in more depth because at the moment with my mentorship I am mostly focused on the FBI. With a different mentor I hope to focus on the other aspect of criminology. Concentrating this component on my other area of interest will allow me more research and exploration.