Overview
Develop a 6–8 minute oral presentation on your hot topic in psychology with 6–8 slides for visual support. Consider key points about your topic, its social significance, analysis of research, application to professional behavior, future directions, and questions and answers on your topic from your hypothetical audience.
Step 1: Select a topic that you are interested in exploring further. Below is a list to help you in making that choice. Pick any of the sub-topics listed via bullet points under the main topics—which one do you want to learn more about?
- Mind and Brain.
- Cognitive bias.
- Predictive brain.
- Artificial intelligence.
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
- WEIRD samples.
- Cross-cultural and cultural psychology.
- Liberation psychology.
- Technology and Media Psychology.
- Violent behavior.
- Identity construction online.
Step 2: Select one audience to design training materials for:
- High school teachers-in-training.
- Low-level employees in a specific workplace setting (specify what type of workplace).
- Managers in a specific workplace setting (specify what type of workplace).
Step 3: Locate three peer-reviewed journal articles on your selected topic. Be sure that at least one article represents diversity, equity, and inclusion. To accomplish this goal, find at least one article that either comes from an international journal, uses a non-Western population, or represents clearly the experiences of an underrepresented group in the literature. Note: One article may be from our course readings, but the other two should be from outside of course readings.
For this assessment, you will be designing training materials for your chosen topic. Select your topic, choose your audience, and then create a PowerPoint presentation with audio overlay to deliver your training. Your final product should be 6-8 minutes in length.
- Describe key points about your topic. What is it? How is it tied to psychology?
- Evaluate the social significance of the topic for psychology.
- Describe what you hope your audience will get out of completing your training. What real-world knowledge will someone take away, and why is that useful and important for their future?
- Analyze research on this topic (from your three scholarly journal articles). The research should further clarify how this topic looks in the real-world and/or why this training is valuable.
- Apply psychological research to professional behavior. What lessons learned from the research will influence how these employees engage in the workplace?
- Articulate future directions on individual (the employee), community (the workplace), and global scales to promote positive change.
- Generate 2–3 questions your audience might ask and present the answers.