Hello,
everyone.
Dr. Renee Ford here with your week
one worksheet assignment instructions.
And what I wanted to do was go
through the worksheet and really
explain to you what we're looking
for when you submit an assignment.
The first thing I want to highlight is that
you go right to the assignment information
in week one. and you need to download the
Week 1 worksheet template to your computer.
That's what you're going to be working
in, and that's what you're going to
upload to the assignment link this week.
You save it to your computer,
and then you use the worksheet,
and you work within the worksheet
to complete the assignment.
When you are finished, you're going to
submit that to the Week 1 assignment link,
and you'll need to follow all of the
directions to submit your assignment.
So you want to upload an assignment,
you agree to, you click that green
box that says, I agree to the tools,
the license agreement,
and then you click the blue submit.
So follow every direction so
that you make sure that you submit
your assignment successfully.
The week one worksheet covers chapters
one and two in your textbook.
that is the Psychology 2E textbook,
the OpenStats textbook.
You're going to complete
a plagiarism activity,
and the plagiarism activity
is found in week one,
and you need to complete the whole thing in
order to answer the question from the
worksheet, because we're going to be asking
you to pick a specific part or an aspect and
discuss that over here in your worksheet.
Some things I want you to
understand about plagiarism.
It's when you use words,
usually three or more,
from sources that you've read,
and you claim them as your
own because you don't cite.
Or you'll find out that there is
intentional and unintentional plagiarism.
How to prevent it is by taking notes.
And you take notes on what. what you read,
what you're listening to,
and then you put those words into your own.
You still cite, and what that
means is for this plagiarism
activity, you're going to say
plagiarism is blah, blah, blah,
and at the end you're going to cite, in
parentheses, you're going to say Capella 2025.
That's honoring that what
you read about plagiarism,
you read on the Capella website
from this specific exercise.
That is called citing.
Now your task this week is to describe
plagiarism in your own words and then to explain
a specific type of plagiarism that you were
surprised to learn about in the activity.
For example, I was very surprised
when I was reading about self
-plagiarism. Really interesting.
So I want to also talk about
the ethical use of AI tools.
And there are so many AI tools.
Anytime that you write an email, you have
an AI asking if you want to, you know,
change a specific way that
you're stating something.
Google, anytime you do a Google search now,
what comes up first is
AI generated information.
Grammarly is a free tool that you can
you can get to look for grammar and spelling
errors. They also have an AI tool.
And then there's chat GPT among a lot
of different tools that are out there.
Now,
what we're going to ask you to do this week
is to describe how you can use those
tools in a way that keeps your work original
to you. Means that you're not using it to
plagiarize. You're not using it to write
up your paragraph or write up a paper and
I will tell you that the proper use of an
AI tool is to help you edit your work I will
tell you that it's okay for you to write
a paragraph and if you're not sure that
if you're saying it the right way you can
send it through a tool like chat GPT and
ask them is there a better way to state this
that's editing you can use an AI tool to
help you better understand concepts, kind
of like doing a Google search when you
don't understand something and it gives you
a better definition or several definitions
of something you're trying to understand.
That's an ethical way to use it.
You can use these AI tools. I
wouldn't recommend it with chat GPT,
but you can use Google definitely
to help you search for
peer-reviewed journal articles.
Chat GPT will give you. outdated sources and
and you will find out through your studies
your undergraduate studies that you have to
use sources from the last five to seven years
so anytime you get something beyond that
it's it's going to be outdated and not something
that you want to use in any of your work
the next section is about critical thinking
there is a link to the writing center
and we want you to complete the stages
of thought assessment and then define
critical thinking in your own words. Again,
take notes on what you read and then you
put all of that into your own words. We want
to read your original thought. That's the
exciting thing about being a teacher is
to hear your voice come through the words.
And then, you know, we use critical
thinking in every aspect of our lives.
So even managing your time.
So think about how critical thinking,
the use of critical thinking
can help you manage your time.
Time management is a very important
aspect of being successful, being
able to be successful in school.
So the next section is
the science of psychology.
This is an interesting question
because what psychology is is the scientific
study of mind and behavior,
scientific study of mind and behavior.
But some people don't think that
psychology is a real science.
Real simple. Reading about that,
why do you think people have this view?
You're also introduced to the different
subdivisions of psychology. You're introduced
to all of that in this entire course.
But based on what you've
read in chapter of one,
which area are you most interested in learning
more about and why? That's really fun
because there's all these different aspects,
different areas where people
specialize in psychology and you get
to pick the one that you're most
interested in learning more about.
This was a fun way to
really think about research.
I wanted to give you something that was
different. So we learned about a correlation.
Now that's a relationship.
So there is research indicating that there
is a correlation between the amount of cereal
or cereal eating cereal and heart disease.
Now cereal companies, and you can think
about all of those cereal boxes that are like
Cheerios that are stamped heart healthy,
cereal companies might use this data that
there is a relationship between eating cereal
and improving health.
So this is two parts now. You need to talk
about why cereal companies might claim
that eating cereal can cause better health,
and then how you could argue against the
idea that cereal consumption directly improves
better health. That's a fun way to use
research and to really apply it to some of the
things that you see in the grocery store.
So in chapter two,
we also learn about the different
approaches to conducting research.
What I'd like you to do is think about any
social issue. And I gave you three examples,
climate change, health issues, poverty.
So is there a social issue that
you want to understand better?
So you're going to have to think about
something that you want to understand
better here that is a social issue.
And then we want you to create a
question based. on that social issue.
A question is called a hypothesis.
And there's two different types of
questions you can ask. We want
you to ask an open -ended question,
not a closed question. A closed question
is going to give you a yes or no answer.
That's boring. We want you to give,
think about why and how those kinds
of questions will give the opportunity
to really fully discuss an issue.
And then the second part of that
is once you have your research, okay,
you've chosen your social issue,
you have your research question,
now you have to look at the different
types of studies that are conducted.
And what study, what type of a research
approach or a study could help you
better understand your research question?
The last question that we were going to ask
you is about ethics, specifically animals,
research.
We learn a lot about consent,
and that means that somehow you're
able to agree to be part of research.
And as adults, you're able
to provide that consent.
But there are certain types of population,
even children and older adults that might
not be able to give that consent. where then
a legal parent or a guardian would give
consent for the child to be part of research.
But animals don't have that opportunity.
They can never say, no, I don't
want to be part of this research.
So this can be a loaded question,
but based on what you have read
about consent, now remember,
we're talking consent here.
Then you have to explain why you
agree or disagree that research,
on animals is ethical.
And then the second part is,
given that animals cannot consent
or agree, and based on what
you've learned in Chapter 2,
you have to then provide some additional
information or things that could
be implemented to ensure that
animals are treated in a humane manner.
When you are completely satisfied and completely
finished with your assignment, you will
submit it by the end of week one any time
during week one you could submit it, but you
need to submit it by Sunday of week one, 11
.59 p.m. Central time to the assignment link.
Remember you are uploading
the entire document.
You are clicking that you
agree to the agreement,
and then you will click on
the blue assignment link.
If you have any questions, please use the
course email that's that in the red you'll
see inbox that is the email that you will
use to email us through the course and if
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