ONE Individual Project (Options are available as to what you can complete for this project – see below. All options for individual projects are assigned to the peer-review process.) (50% of the final grade)
Individual Project Overview:
Individual projects are broken down into a few different components/steps. All individual project options are listed below this overview. All individual projects required the peer-review process. The aim of these individual projects is to help you synthesize the material we are covering throughout the term (i.e. course-specific concepts, theories, etc.). Each student is only required to complete one option for the individual project – see options below. For the purposes of this course, the final project is designed to help you connect the information you learned in this course to real-life problems.
For all individual projects, first, you will be submit your COMPLETED rough draft (i.e. your paper or presentation, interview, case study, etc.) for peer review (worth up to 10 points). Once the due date passes for the rough draft, you will automatically be assigned to review another student’s paper. Half of your final score for the individual project is assigned for your completed draft (i.e. 12.5 pts for the initial draft). The other half of your points for the initial draft are awarded once you thoroughly complete a peer review via the rubric for the assignment (i.e. 12.5 pts for your completed substantive rubric comments). Late peer review comments may not be accepted since your peers require this feedback prior to submitting their final work.
Comments for your peer-review task must be added to the rubric areas for feedback and substantive in nature. These comments must offer your reviewee constructive feedback that they can use in revising their work for their final draft. Outlines or incomplete drafts as your initial draft of the individual project may not be accepted for credit. All options below require the peer-review process. I will not be offering feedback on the initial draft. That is the purpose of the peer-review process. If for some reason your rubric closes/glitches as you are working on it, please let me know and enter comprehensive comments in the feedback area for credit consideration. There is no guarantee credit will be awarded this way so I strongly recommend you carefully fill the required rubric.
Note that the final draft will be due at a later date in the term (worth up to 100 points) for a total of 125 possible points for the project. I will offer feedback on the final draft. However, be sure to consider the feedback your peer reviewer offers you on how to improve your work for the final draft.
Points for your initial COMPLETED rough draft will be granted once you have completed the peer review comments in the rubric for your assigned reviewee. Full credit is an option for students who submit BOTH their peer review completed draft and full comments on the rubric. You can do this!
Peer Review Instructions and Guidance:
- How do I submit a peer review to an assignment:
- How do I know if I have a peer review assignment to complete?
- Where can I find my peers’ feedback for peer reviewed assignments?
Note: Similarity indexes for formal assignments in the course must be kept to 15% or less.
Option number one: Individual Project Research Trends in Biopsychology
I would like to see you integrate the information you have learned throughout the term to conduct a literature review related to one of the topics discussed in our text, Psychology as a Biological Science by Lindberg, under the headings Discussion Questions.
Consider the discussion question (you may choose more than one, up to 3) and how it applies to daily life. See what you can find in current peer-reviewed primary research articles to support the ideas you decide to discuss. You can find free journal articles via the library database. The librarians are available via chat or email to help assist you with your searches and pointers on APA formatting.
Note: You are not required to include an abstract. If you do include an abstract, please review formatting to ensure you are submitting a correctly formatted one.
Some examples of the discussion questions found in the Lindberg textbook include:
- What challenges do you see that daily-life researchers may face in their studies? How can they be overcome?
- How do you think smartphones and other mobile electronic devices will change psychological research? What are their promises for the field? And what are their pitfalls?
- Pick a psychological phenomenon that you would like to know more about. What specific hypothesis would you like to test? What psychophysiological methods might be appropriate for testing this hypothesis and why?
- What is behind the expression use your gray matter, and why is it not entirely accurate?
- If you were interested in the precise time in which a particular brain process occurred, which neuroscience methods could you use?
- Discuss the role of evolution in understanding what humans call love or other forms of prosociality.
- What are the common features of the biochemistry of love and safety, and why are these important to human health?
- Name 34 environmental factors that influence the epigenome and describe their effects.
- Do you think omnivores, herbivores, or carnivores have a better chance at survival?
- The extensive network of multisensory areas and neurons in the cortex implies that much perceptual processing occurs in the context of multiple inputs. Could the processing of unimodal information ever be useful? Why or why not?
- Would you rather have a really good memory or really good metacognition? How might you train someone to develop better metacognition if he or she doesnt have a very good memory, and what would be the consequences of that training?
Note: These are just examples from the book. You are not limited to these. Please go through the discussion questions areas in the textbook for more ideas.
Use these discussion questions from the textbook to help you explore ideas for your paper. They discuss current trends in biopsychological research and are relevant to our course.
Pick one three (1-3) of these discussion questions from the text and discuss how you feel this research has added to the area of biopsychology. What answers do you propose to the discussion questions? Refrain from using the first person voice in your professional writing.
Discuss: What implications does the research have for your personal or professional life? What are some ethical, cultural (i.e. gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, religious), global, or legal issues related to the research you are discussing? Present in professional tone without using the first person voice.
Use at least three (3) peer-reviewed primary journal articles for your project from the last 5 years.
Submit a complete first draft of your paper so that your peer reviewer can offer you feedback on your writing. Points will be assigned for this assignment after you complete the review you are assigned to complete. This assignment is aimed at helping you improve your work and those of your peers, as well. Please be thorough in your comments. Be sure to add your comments to the rubric provided via the grade book.
Your paper should be at least 2-3 pages in length (excluding references). Be sure to include an APA formatted title page and references with citations throughout the body of your work.
The only file formats allowed will be .doc or .docx.
Be sure to submit the FINAL revised document with the following file name: “PSB3002- ROARY_ IndProject1.doc
Be sure to use APA formatting in your writing. You can become more familiar with these guidelines by reviewing the following resources:
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