Wednesday, November 28, 2012

WRITING ASSIGNMENT REMINDERS

As you know, the writing assignments for  Psychology 201 and Psychology 215 are due next week. The following is a reminder of the assignments- PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW ALL REQUIREMENTS TO ASSIST YOU IN OBTAINING THE BEST GRADE POSSIBLE.

BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
In lieu of the 4 multi-media assignments you have the option to completing the following assignment:
I have found the following link: http://bama.ua.edu/~sprentic/101%20SAMind%202010-May-June%20issue.pdf

This is the entire "His Brain/Her Brain" issue from the Scientific American Mind. Those who want to do a paper on brain differences in gender can use this as a starting point. (Note: This would be in lieu of the writing assignments on the syllabus).

You can approach this assignment by taking one of these articles as a starting point and then finding a minimum of one other sources (peer reviewed) on the same topic and completing a research paper on this topic. Alternatively, you uses 3 of these articles and complete the paper using these as your soruces. The writing assignment must follow all the other crierion outlined on the syllabus (APA format, etc).

ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY
A major focus of this course is to get students to understand the depth of knowledge and research available to them regarding different psychological disorders. This writing assignment will allow you to explore a disorder you may be interested in much greater depth than is typically allowed in a class of this nature.
Seeing a disorder in a person is often much different than reading it in a book or case-study. The first step is deciding which disorder you would like to learn more about. One way to do so would be to watch the videos associated with the assignments described above. A second way to select a main character from literature, film, or television who has a psychological disorder.
IT IS IMPORTANT YOU HAVE THE CORRECT DIAGNOSIS IF YOU ARE USING A CHARACTER SO PLEASE CHECK WITH ME BEFORE YOU DO YOUR PAPER IF YOU ARE USING ONE!
The assignment requires you complete a paper using an “evidenced based practice” approach answering the following questions:
1.   An introduction to the Disorder/What is the Diagnostic Criterion of the Disorder
2.   What are the general theories of etiology? OR You can focus on a specific theory
3.   What are the general forms of treatment?
4.   What is the prognosis?
5.   What, if any, changes may occur in the DSMV?

Your paper should include at least 2 citations, one of which should be peer-reviewed - Failure to use a peer-reviewed journal will result in an automatic 25 point decrease of the grade
Note: A peer-reviewed REVIEW article is an excellent source for this type of paper!
Note: Text and Class notes are allowed to be used but do not count towards the two citations; they must be sited
Other requirements of the paper are:
§  Use of (APA) format is required-failure to use APA format will result in an automatic 25 point penalty

§  Copies of any papers that were used as sources must be handed in with the paper- failure to do so will result in an automatic 20 point reduction in grade

§  All papers must be stapled

§  There will be a 5 point per calendar day penalty for each day the assignment is late

§  On the due date of the assignment, students will sign-in that they submitted the paper. If for any reason, you do not submit your paper on that day, it is your responsibility to insure that your paper is signed in appropriately. If sign-in is not completed, the paper will not be counted as submitted, and thus, a 0 will count for the grade. 

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