THE TOPIC WILL BE: AGE RELATED MEMORY
Assignment: You will complete a thorough literature review on a topic of your choosing. Your topic can be on anything related to the broad field of cognitive psychology, including topics ranging from attention and perception or memory and reasoning. You will then communicate your findings back to me through your written literature review. As should be intuitive, a literature review should attempt to synthesize all published research related to a given topic (i.e., it reviews the literature). To wit, literature reviews most often culminate with a tentative research proposal for a new study to be conducted on the topic. As such, it is best to begin your research with a specific question about human behavior that might be answered through a new study. For example, how do humans use memory for prior experiences when interpreting complex visual stimuli (i.e., how does our past help us figure out what we are looking at now?). Absolutely no quotations are allowed!
Completing this assignment will require you to use numerous research journals (both empirical and review). Utmost care should be taken to avoid plagiarism (i.e., if it was not your original insight or language, cite the original). Please avoid using quotations whenever possible.
There is no formal requirement for sections to this paper. That is, you can structure the paper similar to a long introduction section from an empirical research article. If you choose to implement section headers, please be careful to do only when necessary and useful and do so according to APA style. Abstracts are not required for this assignment but are strongly encouraged as good practice.
Diabolus in singulis est (The Devil is in the Details):
- APA 6th ed., 12pt Times New Roman, Double Spaced, 1” margins
- 7-10 pages, not counting references or title page
- Minimum of 8 cited sources (at least 5 must be empirical articles, no website-only sources)
THE TOPIC WILL BE: AGE RELATED MEMORY
I am giving plenty of time to complete the assignment please let me know if there is anything at all you may need.
