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How can psychology help us live healthier, happier lives?
How can psychology help us be better people?
Overview:
Project Proposal
Literature Review
Lesson Presentation
Design an Experiment
Your Task:
Choose ONE concept/term. Create short literature review (collection of research references) about this concept.
Find, cite & annotate 3 peer-reviewed journal articles about your concept.
Articles must be peer-reviewed
At least 2 must be original research - authors describe research they actually did; NOT summary/review of someone else’s research
Within the last 10 years
Summarize each article & explain application to your lesson/connection.
Remember to use the filters in each database below to narrow your search to peer-reviewed and last 10 years.
Full-text academic journals for scholarly research. College-level database.
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Searches all EBSCO databases available via Badgerlink including history, biology, health and popular newspapers & magazines.
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Presentation Directions:
Write a claim to answer 1 of the big questions: How can psychology help us live healthier, happier lives? OR How can psychology help us be better people?
Support claim using at least 4 key terms.
Share at least 1 article from literature review.
Design your own study to test either your claim or one of your key terms.
Presentation should include:
Research method
Problem and hypothesis
Rationale for study (connect to literature review)
Rationale for how experiment relates to claim or key terms
Overview of study
If study is not experiment: IV with operational definition, DV with operational definition, Experimental group, Control group, Controls for possible confounding variables (at least 2)
Population
Sample, including how it will be selected
How it meets the 4 ethical standards
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