The goal of this paper is to apply psychological concepts to your everyday life.

The goal of this paper is to apply psychological concepts to your everyday life. Psychology is about human cognition and behavior. You’re all human, so I want you to write about yourselves! Your job is to highlight how various concepts discussed in class have either applied to you in the past, are something that you are currently experiencing, or are something that you think you will experience in the near future. This paper will be submitted into Moodle (Turn It In) once completed.
Here is the breakdown of the paper
Part 1: Brief introduction to psychology and why it matters
• One introductory paragraph is needed
Part 2: Define and apply (the big part)
• Choose a minimum of 4 different psychological concepts that were discussed in class. Ensure that at least 3 of those concepts come from different chapters. Each concept should have its own paragraph I CHOSE: observational learning, forgetting, stress and long term memory
• For each concept you need to do 2 things:
o 1) Define & explain the concept (What is it? How does it work? When does it work? What do we know about it? etc…)
o 2) Explain how each concept applies to your life (past, present, or near future). I expect you to explain things IN DETAIL here (this is the bulk of your paper)
• Use class notes & the textbook to elaborate on the concepts. When you define the concept, you need to reference the textbook.
o Example: According to Myers and Dewall (2020), operant conditioning is when…..
• NO direct quotes allowed. You MUST phrase things in your own words (note: re-arranging the words of a sentence from your text is NOT putting it in your own words…)
Part 3: Summary and conclusion
• One summary paragraph is needed
Psychological concepts are those that are discussed in class. Here are some examples (note: this list is does not include everything)
• A specific part of vision (e.g., accommodation, presbyopia, colour vision etc…)
• Positive reinforcement / negative reinforcement / punishment
• Classical conditioning
• Observational learning
• Specific part of memory (E.g., encoding, short term memory, sensory memory, long term memory, retrieval, episodic, semantic)
• Forgetting (e.g., interference, decay, motivated forgetting)
• Central nervous system (e.g., the amygdala, the hippocampus)
• Endocrine system (e.g., the pituitary gland)
• Social Psych (e.g. attribution errors)
• Stress (e.g. General adaptation syndrome)
In selecting your concept, choose something specific. For example, “memory” is too broad. You would need to narrow it down. Episodic memory is better because it is more specific.
If you’re unsure as to whether a particular concept is appropriate, please come talk to me.
Depending on what you choose, you might need to do extra research. For example, if you want to discuss how someone you know suffered a brain injury to a part of the brain that we did not focus on in class, you will need to include detail about the location of the injury (the exact part of the brain) and what functions that particular part is responsible for, as well as any other relevant information. To do this, you will likely need to do extra research. You MUST get my approval FIRST before choosing a topic not covered in class or found in the text.
Other information
• Double spaced
• APA format: Calibri 11, Arial 11, Lucida Sans Unicode 10, Times New Roman 12, and Georgia 11,
• 1 inch margins all around
• Include a cover page (See APA Slides on LEA for how to format a title page in APA)
• Include a reference page (for your text reference and if you use any additional sources). Must be in APA format, see attached guidelines in LEA.
• 4-5 pages (NOT including title page or reference page)