Extra Credit
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Extra Credit
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Extra Credit First Quarter: Please follow directions carefully. If directions are not followed, extra credit will NOT be awarded. Extra credit is due via e-mail attachment to nniland@nniland.com [Word documents only - if you need help ask before the deadline!!] by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, October 28, 2011. The extra credit will be added onto the one or two worst assignments [critique or test grade]. Choose up to two articles to read. For each of the article (s) create a mini-critique [answer the four usual questions: summary, evaluation of science, personal response, and importance to the field of psychology]. This should be no longer than a page (I will stop reading after the first page). Broken Mirrors [mirror neurons as an explanation for autism] Teenage Brains [a National Geographic Article] A Link between BMAA, fish, and Alzheimer's/Parkinson's
Second Quarter: Please follow directions carefully. If directions are not followed, extra credit will NOT be awarded. Extra credit is due via e-mail attachment to nniland@nniland.com [Word documents only - if you need help ask before the deadline!!] by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, January 20, 2012. The extra credit will be added onto the one or two worst assignments [critique or test grade]. Reading up to two of the following articles (one must be the first article). For each of the article (s) create a mini-critique [answer the four usual questions: summary, evaluation of science, personal response, and importance to the field of psychology]. This should be no longer than two pages (I will stop reading after the second page). How the Brain Sabotages Weight Loss
Third Quarter: Please follow directions carefully. If directions are not followed, extra credit will NOT be awarded. Extra credit is due via e-mail attachment to nniland@nniland.com [Word documents only - if you need help ask before the deadline!!] by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, March 30, 2012. The extra credit will be added onto the one or two worst assignments [critique or test grade]. Reading up to two of the articles on the links page [this will be updated during the quarter so if you don't find anything that interests you, check back later]. For each of the article (s) create a mini-critique [answer the four usual questions: summary, evaluation of science, personal response, and importance to the field of psychology]. This should be no longer than two pages (I will stop reading after the second page).
Time Article on Dopamine and Risk Taking CNN Article on ADHD and Eczema Newsweek Article - Who Says Stress is Bad for You? Time Article - Borderline Personality Disorder Newsweek Article - Better of Dead [a criminologist explains family annihilators] Time Article - Playing Favorites (when parents have favorites) A Neuroscientist Uncovers A Dark Secret (with link to podcast interview from NPR)
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