Psychology Question

Identify three APA formatted references to support the research topic chosen for Signature Assignment.

Purpose

To research an educational topic related to brain research and understand how it impacts educational environments.

Requirement(s)

Using the Signature Assignment Planning Template, submit three APA formatted references that support the research topic you chose to research and present on for your Signature Assignment.

Assessment

You will be scored using this rubricLinks to an external site..

Resources/Tools

Signature Assignment Planning TemplateLinks to an external site. | APA Resources

Overview

This week you will research and identify 3 APA formatted references that will support your research on the topic chosen for the Signature Assignment (due in Module 7). Use the Signature Assignment Planning Template to list your references and submit for review and grading. You can earn up to 25 points.

Details

Step 1: Completed in Module 1: Research and Choose topic options for your Signature Assignment.

For this assignment, your task includes researching educational topics related to brain research.

• List 3 potential topics related to brain that you want to research for your Signature Assignment
• Explain why you are interested in the topic in 2-4 sentences. Complete this for each topic choice.

Use the Signature Assignment Planning TemplateLinks to an external site. to list your potential topics and why they interest you.

Draw topic ideas from weekly course readings, viewings, and other additional resources such as websites.

Consider the following questions:

1. A full description of the topic
   • What does the research literature have to say about the topic?
   • How does this topic relate to how people interact with the world? What affect does the topic have on cognition and your field of interest?
2. Why you are interested in the topic?Acceptable/suggested topics include but are not limited to:Chapter 1
   The workings of the adolescent brain
   Teenage brain and self-consciousness
   Hippocampus of taxi drivers
   Number of cells in the brain
   Musicians have better memory
   Einstein's brain and the Omega sign
   Memory of the futureChapter 2
   The brain hallucinates your conscious reality
   Visual illusions
   Prism goggles
   Wiring the brain by interacting with the world
   Synchronizing the timing of signals
   Hollow mask illusion
   Synesthesia
   TimewarpChapter 3
   How your unconscious mind rules your behavior
   The power of the unconscious brain
   Dilated eyes and attractiveness
   Flow state
   Subconscious influences on decision-makingChapter 4
   Are we in control of our decisions?
   Decision-making
   Coalition of neurons
   Trolley dilemma
   Dopamine and unexpected rewards
   Judges and parole decisions
   Emotions in decision-making
   The power of now and instant gratification
   Willpower
   Politics and disgust
   Oxytocin
   Decisions and society
   Real-time feedback in neuroimagingChapter 5
   Reading intention into others
   Empathy
   Empathy and outgroups
   Circuitry of the brain devoted to other brains
   Babies and trust
   Reading emotion by simulating others' faces
   Botox diminishes ability to read faces
   Romanian orphans
   The pain of social exclusion
   Solitary confinement
   Psychopaths and the prefrontal cortex
   Blue eyes brown eyes experimentChapter 6
   Can we create new human senses?
   Number of cells in human body
   Brain plasticity
   Cochlear implants
   Sensory substitution
   The "connectome": making a map of all the connections in a brain
   The human brain project
   Computation on other substrates
   Chinese room argument
   Leibniz' mill argument
   Ants
   Consciousness

Submitted to Canvas in Module 1.

Step 2: Find and Submit 3 References to Support your Research Topic. Submit by Day 7 of this week (Module 4).

You will have researched and narrowed down your topic for the Signature Assignment in Module 1. With your topic and research for Signature Assignment chosen by now, the next step is to note your chosen topic and identify and list your references.

You can continue using the Signature Assignment Planning TemplateLinks to an external site. provided in Module 1 to list your Signature Assignment topic and add your references.

• List the topic you chose to research for your Signature Assignment.
• Provide a minimum of 3 references in the reference section in APA format. References should be from reliable sources such as course readings and viewings, the ASU library, peer or scholarly review articles.

You can use APA Resources page to access tutorials and examples about APA formatting.