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Assignment 3: Choosing the Research Paper Topic and Developing an Annotated Bibliography

Part 1: Choosing a Research Topic

From your examination of the literature dealing with the three topics of interest to you through M1 Assignment 1, narrow down your focus to the one topic that interests you the most. Be sure to choose a topic that is a driving force in contemporary forensic psychology and associated services.

Once you choose a topic, you should condense it and state it in the form of a research question or a thesis statement. Explain the topic in terms of its importance in the field. Your topic must be narrow so that you can adequately cover the topic in a 15- to 25-page paper. (For example, posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD] would be far too broad a topic. A more focused topic within this might be researching the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy in treating returning veterans with PTSD.)

Provide a 1- to 2-page overview of your topic, illustrating how it is a current and important topic in forensic psychology.

All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.

Note: Your instructor will approve or provide you feedback on the chosen topic. In cases where there are other students studying the same topic, the instructor will consult with you about modifying the topic or even selecting another one.

Part 2: Building an Annotated Bibliography

This part of the assignment focuses on building an annotated bibliography for your chosen research topic.

Throughout this module, expand your research by including a minimum of twelve peer-reviewed scholarly resources and the contact information for one expert interview (the interview can be conducted via e-mail or telephone or in person at a later date).

Your research should include a combination of the following types of sources:

• Empirical research—including at least one example of qualitative research
• Theoretical articles
• At least one expert interview
• At least two landmark studies

Note: While minimums are specified above, you are encouraged to include more than one expert interview, one qualitative research study, or two landmark studies to create the right balance of studies to effectively address your topic.

You may visit the page titled “Researching Your Chosen Topic” in Module 1 to read more about sources relevant to your research paper.

Expert Interview

(Schedule this early in the course.)

Use the Argosy University online library resources to find, explore, and research these types of sources. To identify an appropriate expert for a personal interview, look for an author of one of the articles that you find interesting; this should be an author you would consider an interesting person to interview, especially if you were left with some questions after reading a particular study he or she had authored. You may also find this author interesting if his or her views contradict what other scholars have found about your topic.

Faculty members of Argosy University around the country, other universities, and forensic areas of education and service are also good choices for interviews.

These personal interviews may be conducted in person, by phone, or by e-mail, as necessary.

Create your annotated bibliography in a Microsoft Word document. Use APA style for compiling the bibliography and developing the annotations. The annotations should summarize the reference in no more than two sentences, and a final sentence should explain the relationship between the study and the research topic. Be sure to indicate which type of study each source is (empirical, qualitative, theoretical, landmark, or expert interview).

All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.

5-3 Short Paper: Using Empirical Support to Make Ethical DecisionsShort Paper

The focus of this paper is to conduct online research for evidence-based practice (EBP). Describe the ethical importance of utilizing evidence-based practices in psychology, and summarize two or three EBPs you may use in your career.

Module Resources Top of Form

Textbook: Bottom of Form

\\Decoding the Ethics Code: A Practical Guide for Psychologists

Chapter 5

Library Article: Self-Care Practices and Perceived Stress Levels Among Psychology Graduate Students

This article discusses the stress and self-care issues faced by psychology graduate students and offers supportive strategies for self-care. This article will help you in completing this week’s journal assignment.

Library Article: The Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments: A Review of Current Efforts

This article reviews the importance of using empirically supported techniques in the field of psychology and examines the recent changes at the state and national levels.This article will help you in completing this week’s discussion and journal assignment

Attachments:

psy_570_short_paper_rubric1.doc

psy570_m5_overview-professional_competence.pdf

PSY 570 Short Paper Rubric

Requirements of submission: You should incorporate scholarly sources as evidence (three or more) within your short paper responses. Short paper assignments must follow these formatting guidelines: double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and APA citations. Page length requirements: 2–4 pages, not including APA title or reference page.

here is my final paper for psychology of performance class. I’m really in bad shape in this class. I have to get at leas %90 to pass. Please If your not fully understand what you are doing, please do not do it.

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PSYCHOLOGY OF PERFORMANCE: Final Project and Presentation – 

Create a new story inspired by the news or other incident (must check with the instructor for approval),  and address the following items according to the material covered over the semester.  Provide details, using terms and theories that support your characters, story, process, and audience. Look for areas where this potential project could either be improved, expanded or focused to increase impact using psychological concepts.

1. Provide a short synopsis of your story – under one page
2. Profile 2-3 character psychological profiles: include developmental issues, abnormal psych diagnoses, and “Defense mechanisms” (2-3 paragraphs a piece),
3. Identify the genre & primary emotional effect on the audience.  (2 paragraphs)
4. Visual/Audio components to emotions, narrative, and character?  (3 paragraphs)
5. Jungian or Freudian connections: how is this movie using ideas of [id/ego/superego & subconscious] or [archetypes/hero’s journey] is creating characters and reaching the audience? (2 paragraphs)
6. What film(s) or other cultural material associative network for the audience?  .  (2-3 paragraphs)
7. What have you discovered about your creative process and creative style in generating this work (and your other work this semester) – and how might you develop this further in the future? (2 paragraphs)
8. What will you have to do as a ‘leader’ in the team building/inspiring/focusing/completion while creating this work? (1-2 paragraphs)
9. Include two potential psychographic/demographic profiles and CITE AUDIENCE STATISTICS from another film. ( 4 paragraph)
10. What lasting effects – entertainment, psychological, cognitive or social – will this potentially have on the audience? (1-2 paragraphs)

PAPER: 100 pts.

Minimum 6 pages (just write the paragraphs as described): you may attach visuals and music as additional files, but these are not included in the 6 pages.

You must include three references (beyond the text and handouts from class) in MLA citation format, using credible sources from suggested books, documents, websites, or interviews as in-text citations and on a works cited page.

PRESENTATION:  8-10 minutes  50 pts

Present three significant aspects of your decisions for this story:

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Also describe (and provide for class) one 2-3 minute scene from another movie that is an similar (or an inspiration) to your film.

Psychology: Extra Credit

You asked for Extra Credit:  this will count as long as you have finished all the other assignments.  50 pts, due at the end of the break.

In the course thus far we’ve focused on the psychological relationship between filmmaker, subject matter, character, production, and emotional impact on the audience.

Take one director/movie that you love and write a paragraph (120-200 wds.) on EACH of the following, and also list your sources: (I used Von Trier because I have never researched his approach and work!)

1)    What is the background of the filmmaker that influences the way they bring human behavior to the screen?  In your own words…

Eg:  Lars Von Trier was brought up in an extremely permissive environment that contrasted with his strict and abusive school environment. His parents took him to nudist camps, but he had to conform in his school environment, and so consequently he was “very scared” of the real world.  He also discovered as a young adult that his father wasn’t his father: that he had been the result of a fling that his mother had with her boss.   Throughout his career he has been ‘disliked, misunderstood, and unpleasant” – and he has taken steps to be contrary with producers and others: in creating his films, he always is looking to disrupt the audience expectations and make them think and experience outside the norm.  In “Dogville” the sense of impending doom and fear is a driving force that makes the outcomes believable if not inevitable.

2)    What do you know about the creation of characters in one of their films?

Eg:  Von Triers characters are often psychologically complex and not easily generalized, but there are other consistent ways that he approaches characters beyond the norm.  Often his characters are allegorical or represent specific ideas (“Dogville”) and extend an ideology about religion or ‘faith’, but a faith that has many readings. He deliberately violates notions of accepted society and finds the frailty in all.  He also often touches on the persecution of women, almost to an obsessive nature.  He says they are not women, not female at all, but instead says, “They are Self Portraits.” (Newsweek) Also, “My technique is that I divide my personality into the characters that I write, and then very early on they get a life of their own.”

3)    What can you find about how the director works on set ?

Eg: Von Trier is not known to be an actor’s director – and has been said to have no interest in what the actors think.  He is mixing his elements, but his direction is mechanical, often describing motion and voice, but not getting into the psychological understanding that many actors expect.   He does press the performer, in what is sometimes perceived as an unsympathetic way, but this process sometimes produces performances that shine in confident actors OR reveal the delicacies in those that usually require more interaction. On the other hand, the crew and creative are often satisfied with his demanding and technical approach.  He is known for having a dark but funny perspective – witty and intelligent – and at least from the cinematography perspective is demanding, technical and precise in this desires to capture the essence of the scenes.  Cinematographer Anthony Dodd Mantle described the process of “Antichrist” as both exhausting, demanding and interesting – both from keeping VonTrier emotionally satisfied and also resolving technical demands.

4)    What themes are explored in their work?

Eg: When asked about his perspective and whether there was more misery or joy – he responded: “Misery, dammit! Clearly. You may argue: Orgasm. Yes, that’s fine enough. But, orgasms, Ferraris and other pleasures. Yes, but with death and suffering at the other end of the scale, these weigh more, I think. And there’s much more suffering and pain than pleasure”.  In a way this sums up his approach to characters and creation of narratives that push discomfort in many ways.  Von Trier takes the ambiguity and paradox of existence to be the basis of his interpretation, never leaving the viewer with an easy answer. Underneath every normal societal configuration there is a sideways truth that is erodes the superficial ideas.

5)    What is the audience/public reaction to the emotional content of the work?

Reading reviews of any Von Trier work, can be quite revealing, since reviews often contain both respect for his technical and artistic approach but then split heavily in interpretation of theme and ultimate meaning.  Because he does push boundaries and genuinely include provocative images that explore his themes and intent, there is a  challenge to tolerance and norms.  Peter Hjorth, one of his long term collaborators as a 2nd unit director and visual effects supervisor  puts it this way – “Lars’ films both ravish and revolt audiences, pushing the limits of tolerance and understandability.”  In looking at reviews of “Dogville” for example, there are many critical statements ranging from “fatally self important” to “brutally masterful allegory” and in general there is a question between the artistic value and daring measured against the pretentious ambiguity and harsh interpretation. In other words, unless you have a high tolerance for ambiguity, or just enjoy his visual experiments, and symbolic/allegorical presentations, it may be a difficult experience.

Works Cited

Gross, Larry. “The Six Commandments of the Church of Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist | FilmComment.” The Six Commandments of the Church of Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist. Film Comment, 1 Sept. 2009. Web. 24 Dec. 2014. <http://www.filmcomment.com/article/the-six-commandments-of-the-church-of-lars-von-triers-antichrist>.

Rapold, Nicolas. “Hard Life for a Von Trier Woman, Again.” The New York Times. The New York Times, 1 Mar. 2014. Web. 24 Dec. 2014. <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/movies/hard-life-for-a-von-trier-woman-again.html?_r=0>.

O’Hahir, Andrew. “Interview: Charlotte Gainsbourg Talks Von Trier’s “Melancholia”.”Saloncom RSS. 9 Nov. 2011. Web. 24 Dec. 2014. <http://www.salon.com/2011/11/10/interview_charlotte_gainsbourg_talks_von_triers_melancholia/>.

Thomas, Dana. “Directing in the Dark.”Newsweek 15 June 2003: Print.

Thorsen, Nils. “Longing for the End of All.”Cannes Festival – Www.festival-cannes.com. 11 Apr. 2011. Web. 24 Dec. 2014. <http://www.festival-cannes.com/assets/Image/Direct/042199.pdf>