1rst research question is what I would like in apa 7 format.
2008PSY SOCIAL & CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY, 2020 RESEARCH ESSAY MARKING CRITERIA CRITERIA STANDARDS MARKS Content Introduction · Clear introductory paragraph that orients the reader and introduces the topic and the aims of the essay; includes brief overview of particular issues/sub-topics to be addressed · Clear and accurate description of the relevant model/phenomena 4 Body · Information from high quality academic sources · Information (including theoretical framework and research findings) highly relevant to topic · Evidence of wide reading on topic/comprehensive coverage · Excellent critical analysis of literature, sources incorporated well, empirical evidence/arguments effectively presented, strengths and weaknesses appropriately listed, evidence of critical thought · Cultural relevance of the theory/phenomenon appropriately discussed 11 Body · Excellent culturally appropriate application of the theory to the relevant practical problem · Evidence of research base and critical thought 4 · Conclusion · Clear summary of key points · Literature gaps/future directions appropriately highlighted 2 Organisation & Cohesion · Clear, coherent, logical organisation · Excellent attention paid to guiding the reader · Use of sub-headings where appropriate, excellent use of linking devices · Information appropriately divided between introduction, body, and conclusion 3 Communication of Ideas · Sources of information well-integrated · Literature is clearly and succinctly described · Own ideas are well integrated throughout · Full command of academic language · Wide and excellent use of appropriate vocabulary and grammatical structures 4 Presentation · Excellent presentation, consistent with APA 7th conventions · Excellent spelling & punctuation demonstrated throughout 2 TOTAL MARK =/ 30 2008PSY SOCIAL & CUTURAL PSYCHOLOGY, 2020 RESEARCH ESSAY OVERVIEW: 1750 word research essay in APA 7th format WORTH: 30% DUE: 12:00PM Monday, the 21st of September (Week 10) SUBMISSION: Electronic submission via Turnitin ONLY Under Assessment on Learning@Griffith LATE:PENALTY: 5% of maximum mark (30), for each working day or part working day the item is late Assessment items submitted more than five working days after due date 0% The assignment is an essay and your task is to select ONE of the questions listed on the next page and write a response to it. Each question is linked to at least one of the topics covered in 2008PSY. Your essay needs to: · convey the knowledge and ideas that have been established regarding the social psychological model central to the research question · describe, summarise, and integrate existing theory and research · highlight strengths and weaknesses of the current theory and research · apply theory and research to a practical issue, taking culture into account · draw conclusions regarding the current status of theory and research The questions below have been structured to help you achieve these aims. The questions are like a simple recipe for a literature review: introduce; describe model; review the relevant literature; discuss application; conclude. Answer the whole question. RESEARCH QUESTIONS Choose only ONE (1) of these to answer 1. Social comparison theory (Festinger, 1954) articulates why individuals compare themselves to others, and the possible consequences. In recent years, many researchers have applied this theory to understanding the psychological outcomes associated with social networking sites. In your essay, describe social comparison theory. Present and critically evaluate research investigating social comparison theory and social networking sites. Ensure you evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of using social comparison theory to understand psychological outcomes associated with social networking sites. Discuss the ways in which scientific knowledge regarding social comparison theory could contribute to culturally appropriate interventions aimed at improving outcomes associated with social networking sites. 2. The illusion of control (Langer, 1975) is a psychological phenomenon whereby individuals overestimate their control over events, even when the event is based purely off chance. Since it was initially proposed, many researchers have examined how the illusion of control is implicated in gambling behaviours. In your essay, describe the illusion of control. Present and critically evaluate research investigating the illusion of control and gambling behaviours. Ensure you evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of using the illusion of control to understand gambling behaviours. Discuss the ways in which scientific knowledge regarding the illusion of control could contribute to culturally appropriate interventions aimed at reducing problem gambling. RESEARCHING YOUR ASSIGNMENT Note that you will need to carry out independent library research in order to develop your response to your selected research question. As each question relates to a topic that will be treated in the 2008PSY course, a good starting place for your research will be your textbook. Your reading here will provide you with some general background relevant to your chosen research question. In addition, it will provide you with some starting references that you will be able to follow up in your literature search. There are a number of important points to recognise in researching this assignment: 1. You will not be able to answer your chosen question by simply drawing upon your life experiences. Nor will you be able to find an answer to your chosen question in the textbook or using just a single research article. Rather, you will have to research the topic extensively and build an answer based upon your reading. This is an assignment that requires a review of the literature. Your essay will draw upon both the relevant theory and empirical research relating to your selected topic – primarily via journal articles and chapters in edited books (not textbooks). 2. The expectation is that you will need to do some library research to inform your essay. Psycinfo is a good database to commence your search. You can limit your search to certain years or by other criteria to save you getting 1000s of hits! You will need to start your assignment soon in order to have sufficient time to carry out the library research. You are exceedingly unlikely to do well on this assignment if you start and complete it the night before or even 2-3 nights before the submission date! 3. It is simply not possible to specify the minimum number of readings that will provide you with an adequate answer to your selected topic. Whereas the correct answer to this question is, “as many as it takes”, you can anticipate that it will be at least in the range of 8-15 for a passable essay (and very likely at least in the 10-20 range for essays that receive higher marks). These ranges overlap. This is not a black and white question. The topics have been chosen from areas that will provide you with plenty of research to consider. There are no magic papers in any of them. For each question, the basic paper has been cited for you as a starting point. Please see the References below. 4. Keep the full references of the material you read so you can cite them properly. WRITING YOUR ASSIGNMENT Each of the questions calls for you to: 1) Outline a phenomenon or model in social psychology. 2) Draw together and critique the relevant theoretical and research literature in relation to a particular issue. 3) To apply (again, critically) these insights to a relevant application in a culturally appropriate way. The literature is the raw material – it is like data. You may have some initial perspectives in mind, but the literature will ultimately support these or not. In this sense, writing a literature review is a bit like putting together a jigsaw puzzle, except that when you start you don’t know how many pieces there are, or how they might fit together, or what the finished jigsaw looks like. These latter things become apparent as you read. This is the challenge, as well as the fun! There are also some general points on essay structure and technique to be aware of in writing the assignment: 1. As implied above, when you believe that you have developed a good feel for the research, and you have located sufficient bits of evidence to build a case, you need to draw the bits together so that they make a coherent and persuasive argument. 2. In presenting your argument, it should be structured with an introduction, a body and a summary/conclusion. (Don’t use these terms as headings. Headings are related to the actual content.) 3. The introduction should seek to locate the reader in the topic area, giving a brief overview of the breadth of the topic and the sorts of issues that have been of importance to researchers. You should then focus on your selected research topic, specifying the particular issues/sub-topics that you intend to address, and in what order. The section of each question that asks you to Describe... will be an integral part of the introduction to your essay. 4. The body of the assignment should systematically work through the series of sub-topics or issues that are relevant to your topic. Note that it assists your presentation, and the reader, if you use subheadings where these are appropriate. It is also useful to introduce each sub-topic and to draw each sub-topic discussion together with a summary/conclusion. The Present and critically evaluate evidence... section of each question will be an integral part of the body. Clearly, there will be a lot of time and effort in this section. 5. The application section (also part of the body) of the assignment should be informed by the insights you have derived from the critical evaluation of the literature you have conducted and presented above. Each question contains a final Discuss the ways... part that asks you in some way to comment upon and evaluate applications of the relevant model to some specific issue. It is the chance to show how you can apply social psychological insights to solving a real-world problem (in a culturally appropriate way). 6. The summary/conclusion section of your assignment should draw together the points that you have made in order to provide your definitive response to the topic based upon your evaluation of the research literature. In addition, it is valuable to be able to point out where there are gaps in the literature, in relation to the topic area, that require further research (keeping in mind that these should follow from the critical evaluation that you have previously presented). 7. Since your response will draw heavily upon the existing theoretical and research literature, it is expected that you will cite your source material, as appropriate. The rule is that you provide a reference(s) in the text when you paraphrase material from a book or research article. In addition, you are required to place particular sentences and paragraphs that you have extracted from a source(s) within quotation marks, together with the reference and page numbers in the text. However, it is expected that you will mostly paraphrase arguments and research findings from books and research articles, rather than quote exact sentences and words. Quotations are used only when it is especially important to link a particular claim or argument to a particular author and/or you are simply unable to better express a