Was the Scientific method followed? How?
What pieces were or were not part of it? (Randomization, study type, placebos, etc.)
How can it help us learn about basic principles of behavior?
How can you use the scientific method to find and address possible problems in your research design?
What is the major research question(s) addressed by the authors?,Are the authors testing a particular theory or hypothesis? If so, describe
Did the authors describe any practical implications or future research as a result of the current findings?
How applicable was the study conducted? For example, how will the study’s findings be relevant in your future career as an educator?
How able am to form a person-centred relationship and reflect on, and analyse my practice?
Use one of the online scholarly databases (e.g. PsycINFO), obtain an empirical journal article that you find interesting. Then, read the Gray & Wegner (2013) on interesting research (attached) and complete the following assignment:
Briefly summarize the major sections (introduction, method, results, and discussion) of the article you chose.
Write up the reference for the article in APA style
How do you think the article you’ve chosen stacks up according to each of the six guidelines outlined in the Gray & Wegner (2013) paper? Justify your answer.
How can we promote healthy eating behaviour?What methods of investigation will you use? Why?
What methods of analysis will you use? Why?
What research methods would you use to understand reasons for childhood
obesity in First Nations communities and why? What specific ethical
and research considerations will you need to make when conducting
this research?
What are the basic processes underlying the sense of vision?
During the activity, what other senses were you using and how did you use them to accomplish your tasks to perceive the world around you?
What information did you pick up on that you may have ignored if you were using your sense of vision?
Briefly describe how sound travels through the ear to the auditory nerve.
During the activity, what other senses were you using and how did you use them to accomplish your tasks to perceive the world around you?
What information did you pick up on that you may have ignored if you were using your sense of hearing?
Define habituation and sensory adaptation. Provide examples from your observation time of habituation and/or sensory adaptation to support your response.
How do contemporary theorists view the relation between biology and culture? (pg. )
What are WEIRD societies? (pg. )
Why is it a problem that most cognitive development research is performed with children from WEIRD societies? (pg. )
Sociocultural psychologists believe that children learn to think primarily from what? (pg. )
Vygotsky proposed four interrelated levels from which we should evaluate children’s development – What are they and what do they refer to? (pg. )
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What are tools of intellectual adaptation/cognitive artifacts? (pg. )
What are the two types of cognitive artifacts? Give two examples of each.(pg. )
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How can differences in the number naming system of cultures contribute to differences in cognitive skills and math abilities? [hint: The authors of your text discuss Kevin Miller and colleagues (1995) research on this] (pg. )
What was one of the most profound tools of intellectual adaptation in the 20th century? (pg. )
What does it mean to say someone is a digital native? (pg. )
How might being a digital native influence a child’s cognitive development? (pg. )
What is scaffolding? (pg. )
What is the zone of proximal development? (pg. )
How are scaffolding and the zone of proximal development related? (pg. )
How does shared remembering influence the cognitive development of children from different cultures? (pg. )
In what ways do parents influence their child’s cognitive development through reading and other conversation? (pg. )
Describe the study of selective attention that used the frame-line test (Kitayama et al., 2003). What did they do? What did they find? What does this suggest about cultural influences on the focus of attention?
What are some cultural differences in the effects of guided participation? (pg. )
Discuss how intelligence testing should be used in the public schools here in 2022.
“Does psychology support the american education system” My stance on the paper should be that psychology DOESNT support the american education system:Discuss?
Investigating how the internet aids malingering amongst young adults:Discuss?
