Welcome to the course guide for PSY383: Social Learning in Infants and Children with Dr. Seibert. In this library session, you will learn how to identify an appropriate topic and how to find scholarly research articles using library databases.
PSY 383 Article Analysis:
Students will be expected to find a popular news article published within the past 10 years based on research in the area of childhood social learning. The popular news article may come from sources such as Time Magazine, The New York Times, Newsweek, NPR, CNN, etc. A good place to get started is the APA’s Psychology News Portal. Be sure to read through the popular news article to make sure it is descriptive and sufficiently long enough to in order to draw conclusions from the original research that is cited.
Next, students will be expected to find the psychological study that is mentioned in the popular news article. Students will need to locate the original research study using the psychology databases on the library’s website. These scholarly, peer-reviewed research articles can be found within reputable journals such as Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, International Journal of Behavioral Development, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, and more. The research article also must have been published within the past 10 years.
Students will read the popular news article and the original research article and write a paper that describes and summarizes both articles, compares and contrasts the main points of each article, and examines whether the popular news article accurately describes the original research article. The article analysis should be approximately five pages typed and double-spaced.
Background on childhood social learning:
