Category: Psychology

gender Stereotyping
1.What is your opinion on the toy industry’s way of marketing certain toys specifically to girls and other toys specifically to boys? Do you like it, dislike it, think it’s good, think it’s bad, etc.? Explain your point of view on the issue.
2.What toys did you buy, do you buy, or do you intend to buy for the young boys and girls in your family (for example, your own children or your nieces and nephews). Is your selection of toys different for the girls versus the boys?
3.What impact do you think the gender stereotyping used in the production and marketing of toys has on the social, cognitive, and physical development of children and their future roles in society? Is it positive or negative, strong or minimal?
To assist in answering the second question, find some scientific information from an online source relevant to the issue. Provide a rationale (i.e., a set of reasons) in support of your conclusion to the question incorporating specific information found from the online source. Provide a reference for the online source that includes the complete web address, organization, and author (no particular format for the reference is required).

The memory paper will test your ability to think, generate hypotheses, and, in general, apply psychological science. The task will be to take a position in a current debate in memory science. You will then have to support your position by drawing on the data that are available on the topic. The goal is to convince readers that the position you take is correct by presenting the relevant data on the topic. Writing that both positions are correct will automatically result in a deduction of points. Think of this as a debate in which your job is to argue one of the positions. This paper will require you to go beyond the textbook. You will need to refer to journal articles, book chapters, and, if you must, websites. Each student must read journal articles for the paper. At least three journal articles must be referenced. If you use websites, you are responsible for any misinformation you get from the website (the best websites to use are those of the researchers themselves). Your view in the reaction paper must be supported by psychological science (including neuroscience, social psychology, neurobiology). Your feelings and impressions are not relevant in this paper; rather it is scientific data that you must draw upon. You do not have to be balanced. Choose arguments that support your position, and refute arguments that may support the other position. You will be graded on your ability to do both. APA style is required. Choose one topic from the list below. You must also answer the question in approximately 1,000 words (about 3 pages). You must craft your arguments to fit into the word limit. The word limit refers to the body of your paper and does not include title page, references, and any supplementary material you add.
Topics:
Distributed vs. Massed practice: which produces better learning.
Visual mnemonics: Does the method of loci improve the learning of lists?
Childhood amnesia: theoretical explanations (remember you need to include discussion of empirical research)
Survival processing: Nairne and Pandeierada (2007)
The generation effect
Flashbulb memories: special mechanism or general mechanism.
Critical Intrusions: What causes false memories in the DRM?
Diary studies: what, when, and where cues. (remember you need to include discussion of empirical research)
Encoding specificity
Interference between visual and auditory working memory
Part-Set Cueing: Recall of the U.S. states.
Retrieval practice: do you do better after self-testing
Overlearning: savings score and studying past the point of perfect retention
Own-race bias and memory for faces.
The accuracy of cue-only vs. cue-target judgments of learning
Imagery-based mnemonics vs. one the four principles.

Can psychology research (or social science research more generally) ever be completely ‘scientific’? Discuss some examples from the readings (and elsewhere) of scientific knowledge which demonstrates aspects of socially constructed perspective.

 
The statistics you critique in the article must have been covered in class before the end of the semester. These include, but are not limited to: correlations, binominal distribution/inference, regression, z-‐‐test, t-‐‐test, and ANOVA. You should NOT select an article that uses parameter estimation(e.g., 30% of women experience a depressive episode during their lifetime)or meta-‐‐analysis (a paper analyzing lots of previous experiments)! You want an article that uses any other design and/or statistic.

DO NOT QUOTE from your news article. You should be able to summarize what the article is saying using your own words and then CITING the article.

FINAL PAPER GUIDELINES

These are general guidelines and are meant to GUIDE you, not dictate you. You should follow these guidelines but also feel free to write additional sections as needed for clarity. Please be concise and do not ramble, but make sure to provide a detailed description of the methods and data analysis. A sample paper is on Canvas under Files/Final Paper Information.
1. Papers should be 4-‐‐7 pages long, double-‐‐spaced (with no additional spaces before/after paragraphs), in Times New Roman size 12 font with 1-‐‐inch margins. This page limit does not include the title or reference pages. The format should follow APA style. If you have questions about APA style please see the above links and, if you still have questions, post questions to the discussion board. A large proportion of your grade (~10%) will be based on
APA format.
2. You should be writing about the news article only, you should not find and summarize the research article on which the news article is reporting.
3. You should not quote from your news article – use your own words and be very careful to ensure you are using your own words so no plagiarism occurs. Do not take the news article report and change a couple of words, truly summarize in your own words.
4. Your paper must include the following sections and answers to the following questions (you may use appropriately formatted APA headings to separate these sections if you desire):
a. Title Page (see APA resources above for proper formatting)i. Title your paper: A Critique of “_________________________________” (name of the article you are critiquing goes in quotation marks)
b. Summary
i. Introduce the article topic ii. Identify what the articles goal appeared to be iii. Identify the research question or hypothesis iv. What was the design? (e.g. experimental, etc.) v. Were there independent/dependent or predictor/criterion variables? Why or why not? If yes, specify which variables are independent/dependent or predictor/criterion vi. Who was the population? vii. What was the sampling strategy? viii. What was the sample? ix. How were the abstract ideas of interest measured? x. In brief, what conclusion did the author of the article draw? xi. More things possible!
*If the article does not explicitly identify any of the things listed above, you are responsible to either 1) infer what you think it is given the limited information and state how you made that inference and/or 2) state what the appropriate item (sampling procedure, sample, etc.) should be given the question of interest.
c. Discuss the statistics used or implied in the article i. Provide the correct name for the statistic(s) employed ii. Define the statistic(s) employed. Generally, what information does this statistic(s) provide? What information does it not
provide? (e.g. correlation tells you a relationship, not causation)

d. Discuss what the article did well i. This can be theory-‐‐building, design, sampling, measurement, selection ofstatistics, interpretation, journalistic goals, etc.
e. Discuss what the article did not do well i. This can be theory-‐‐building, design, sampling, measurement, selection of statistics, possible biases, interpretation, journalist
goals, etc.

f. References (see APA resources above for proper formatting)
g. Copy of your news article (paste from print view to omit pictures

Throughout the course, you will create a research/term paper (2,500 words of content, plus cover, abstract, and reference pages) that relates a basic social psychological principle of your choice to one of the applied subfields (forensic psychology, psychology of religion, and health psychology).
The paper must have at least five scholarly (peer reviewed) sources, four of those from the past two years. After you have fulfilled the scholarly article criteria, you may use other sources you find applicable, but these other sources, especially Web sources, should be used judiciously and sparingly.

 
What do the authors describe as a naturalistic setting in an HMO? Do you agree with this description?

What is your perspective on the outcome of the study described? Do you agree or disagree with the reported results?

According to this study, is treatment for adult depression effective in a managed care environment? Explain your answer; why or why not?

Article is from below: Journal of consulting a clinical psychology. Benchmarking the Effectiveness of Psychotherapy Treatment for Adult Depression in a Managed Care Environment.

This is a literature review for doctoral project. It has to meet the basic standards of a dissertation doctoral project.Is there any correlation between trauma exposure and autobiographical memory deficits or impairments. APA Style

Assignment
Describe how the study of psychology is relevant to students’ career field.

Achieve goals through planning and prioritization.

Creating a PowerPoint Presentation for Future Colleagues

For this week’s Assignment, you will create a PowerPoint® presentation that illustrates the connection between current psychology research and your role as a leader in a selected career field. You will present a psychology research article that studies a specific challenge that could be encountered in your career field.

Go to the Kaplan Library and select a topic that connects psychology with your career field. Be sure to select the peer-reviewed box, so that you know your research studies are primary academic sources.
For example:
A future addictions counselor may select the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy.
A future business professional may select ways of improving work morale.
An early childhood development professional may select behavior modification techniques to improve classroom behavior.
After reviewing several studies, select one research study that most interests you.
Be sure to email the Kaplan Librarian if you need help with this. (The Librarian will likely need one business day to respond.)
Click on the Cite link to bring up an APA reference for your article.
After reviewing the entire article, focus on the abstract for the main highlights of the research.
Create a presentation that is at least 10 slides long to present this information to future colleagues. Consider this presentation training for future colleagues on how your study of psychology relates to particular problem in your career field. Your slides should address the following questions:
Identify your career field and article you selected.
Describe the highlights of the research study.
Relate the research to your career field.
Identify ways in which this information can be implemented into your career field.
Consider reviewing the Kaplan University Writing Center article, “Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations” prior to starting your presentation.

Writing Requirements and Guidelines

Your Assignment should be at least 10 slides, not the Cover and Reference pages.

Cover page: Provide your name, title of Assignment, course and unit number, and date
Body: at least 10 slides answering the questions provided in the Assignment directions
Reference Page: Sources in APA format