PROBLEM-BASED WRITING ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION AND GRADING CRITERIA
You will have to choose and complete one Problem-Based writing Assignment (PBA) in which you will have to use your knowledge acquired through the course to resolve and explain a real-life problem or task. The real-life problems/tasks will be tied to the Sensation & Perception topics of the class with specific questions to solve. You will find the list of scenarios to complete your problem-based writing assignment in Blackboard Learn (BBL).
Your job is to find the relevant scientific literature about the topic and solve the practical problem/task and elaborate your own solutions.Your job is to choose one topic from the list and complete this assignment following the instructions below.
Instructions
The paper should be at least 4 pages long and a maximum of 7 pages (excluding cover and references page), typed, spell-checked and double-spaced
You need to cite at least 4 sources, and at least 3 sourceshave to be peer-reviewed scientific sources, from peer reviewed scientific journals and/or books. All the sources you use in the paper should be cited and referenced following the American Psychological Association reference format style. Please, use APA, 7th edition style (2019). Please, refer to the following resources on how to cite and generate a reference list using APA style, 7th Edition. No paper will be accepted without a reference list. Note that JUST the citations and the reference list need to be in APA style (7th Ed), NOT the full paper.
The paper should prove that you gathered scientific information in regards of the topic and that you understand it. The practical problem should be solved with evidence-based information.
The paper should solve the practical problem proposed professionally and with attention to detail. You have to elaborate in your own words to solve the practical problem.
It is especially valuable if you use creative thinking to solve the problem. Be creative and try to think outside the box. Each practical problem can be solved differently, and the solution depends on your knowledge and your creativity!!
All papers MUST have:
The Title of the Practical Option you chose for the assignment
Citations and reference list in APA style.
PLEASE, DO NOT PLAGIARIZE
The information in the paper must come using your own words. We use SafeAssign to check for plagiarism. Plagiarism is not acceptable. Please, familiarize yourself with the Academic Integrity Website, and what constitutes plagiarism
PROBLEM-BASED WRITING ASSIGNMENT ACTIVITY LIST
You will have to complete one Problem-Based writing assignments in which you will have to use your knowledge acquired through the course to resolve and explain a real-life problem or task. These real- life problems/tasks are tied to the Sensation & Perception topics of the class with specific questions to solve. Your job is to find the relevant literature about the topic and solve the practical problem/task and elaborate your own solutions. Make sure you explain, describe and cite the findings from the scientific relevant literature and be creative at performing your job. You have to choose ONE topic from this list and complete this assignment following the instructions posted in BBL. This assignment is worth 6% of credit.
PLEASE, DO NOT PLAGIARIZE
The information in the paper must come using your own words. We use SafeAssign to check for plagiarism. Plagiarism is not acceptable. Please, familiarize yourself with the CCSU Academic Integrity Website, and what constitutes plagiarismhttps://www.ccsu.edu/academicintegrity/files/Understanding_and_Preventing_Academic_Misconduct. pdf
1. Synesthesia
You work in Community Health Center as a professional and the center has recently received a few cases with individuals with Synesthesia. As it is not a disease, the Community Health Center does not offer specialized counseling and education and does not offer support groups. However, based on your knowledge you consider that the Center may serve these individuals better by providing them with psychoeducation and support groups. You have a meeting with the executive board of the center to explain the reasons you consider that they should add these services. For this assignment, you have to first define and describe what synesthesia is, describe the different types, how it can affect people’s lives, the brain areas involved, the potential benefits and disadvantages, and describe the information that you’d give in your talk using scientific peer-reviewed literature on the topic. Find, cite and explain the scientific literature that you will use for this assignment.
2. ColorBlindnessEarlyDetection&Education
You have been hired in an agency to start a campaign to assist the school districts for early detection of color blindness. You have to assist the school districts to deliver a kid-friendly test for the early detection of color blindness. This test will not be a diagnostic test but may assist to identify potential students with it. In addition, you will assist the school district to create an individualized educational session to the family and the students that may have color blindness. In this talk you have to explain color-blindness and the types and also provide information on proper diagnostic and services in the community. Find, cite and explain the scientific literature that you will use for this assignment.
3. AssistingindividualswhoexperienceProsopagnosia
The neurology clinic in your community is looking for a professional that can assist them in providing resources for people that experience Prosopagnosia. You have been hired as this professional. Your role is to design and teach strategies that individuals with Prosopagnosia can use and apply in their daily lives to assist them with adjustment to their home and work routines, including safety, work and real-life functional assistive strategies. You have to first define and describe what prosopagnosia is, how prosopagnosia can affect people’s lives, and justify the design of your strategies using scientific peer-reviewed literature on the topic. Find, cite and explain the scientific literature that you will use for this assignment.
4. Cochlear Implants and Speech Perception
You work in the Audiology Department of a state Hospital as a consultant and psychoeducator. One of the reasons individuals and their families go to the Audiology Department is to receive tests, diagnosis, treatment, services, and education in regards of many types of hearing loss and hearing impairments. One of the treatments interventions performed in this Department is the placing of cochlear implants. Your job in this Department is to provide to the potential candidates to receive this intervention (or their family members/caregivers if the candidate is a child) extensive information about this treatment intervention, the short- and long-term effects and the influences on language and speech development. In addition, it is important to provide information about services and support in the community. Find, cite and explain the scientific literature that you will use for this assignment.
5. Brain Awareness Day and Music Perception
For Brain Awareness Day, the Department of Education in your state is organizing activities for high schools in many towns and school districts. The goal is to educate high schoolers and promote science in a fun and creative way. They are asking for your collaboration to organize a workshop in a music school. Your task is to design a workshop that will teach the students how the brain perceives music. Try to develop creative ways to help the students understand how they can perceive their favorite music! Find, cite and explain the scientific literature that you will use for this assignment. Your goal in this paper is to describe how you will do the workshop, the design of the workshop and the contents that you would use to do it.
6. High School Psychology Class and Transduction
You have been invited to visit a high school psychology class. The teacher has asked you to help the class understand some basic concepts from the sensation and perception chapter. You have been asked to develop a lesson plan to help the students learn the concept of transduction. You have to develop creative ways to help the students understand this concept using several sensory domains. In your plan, include examples of transduction from several sensory domains (e.g., visual, auditory, cutaneous, taste, olfactory system). Try to develop creative ways to help the students understand this concept. Also, describe how you will assess that the students have understood the concept.
Find, cite and explain the scientific literature that you will use for this assignment. Your goal is to describe how you would teach that concept and what strategies and contents you would use.
7. Severe weather and Alarm Emergency System
You have been hired as a consultant by your city council to provide recommendations on how to improve their emergency alarm system. This city has frequently suffered weather catastrophes, such as floods, hurricanes, and severe snow storms. Your job is to assist the city council in improving their
emergency system, which mainly uses sirens. The sirens inform the citizens whether they need to find shelter and how severe the weather is. How is the pitch of the siren important in helping people detect it and identify it? Create and explain the new alarm system that will enable the city to communicate with the citizens in case of an emergency and will be able to discriminate between emergencies and severity. Find, cite and explain the scientific literature that you will use for this assignment. Your goal is to describe how you would design the alarm system and the details of it.
8. Adaptive Communication Equipment for people with cutaneous-sensory disabilities
You and two colleagues of yours, who are bioengineers, founded a startup company that will create adaptive communication equipment for people with cutaneous-sensory disabilities. Your job is to describe what type of device you will design as your first product. You have to specify what type of population you will be targeting (e.g., children, adults, etc….) and the specific type of cutaneous- sensory impairment that you want your device to assist with. You also need to explain what type of functional difficulties this population suffer from because of their cutaneous-sensory disability and how your device will enable them overcome their problems. Find, cite and explain the scientific literature that you will use for this assignment. Your goal is to describe the type of device that you would design, and describe how it will improve the quality of life of people with this cutaneous-sensory disability.
9. Anosmia & Smoke Detection System
You are an expert on the perception of smell and you have been hired by a smoke alarm and you have been hired by the National Fire Protection Association to create a new system to alert of smoke and other dangers for people who experience anosmia. Find, cite and explain the scientific literature that you will use for this assignment. Your goal is to describe the type of device that you would design, and describe how it will help to improve the current systems in place and improve the quality of life of people with anosmia.
10. Congenital Insensitivity to Pain
Your best friend’s son was born with Congenital insensitivity to pain or Congenital Analgesia. He has had many hospitalizations because he has been hurt numerous times. Your friend’s son is not able to feel that he is being burnt when touching a candle, he does not notice that his toes become cold when playing in the snow and develops frostbite, and he does not realize when he bleeds from a severe cut. He is constantly watched by his parents, but he still gets severely hurt at times. Your desperate friend has asked you to use your knowledge to come up with a device and useful strategies that can inform her son and the family that he is getting hurt, although he is might not be feeling it. Use your knowledge of the cutaneous senses and other senses to come out with solutions for your son’s friend. Find, explain and cite the latest scientific literature that you will use for this assignment. Your goal is to find strategies that can help your son’s friend and provide information regarding some assistive devices that could assist in keeping his safety.
11. Cooking Show and the best Chef
You have been hired by a TV channel to assist them with their casting sessions of a new cooking show with multiple chefs. The show is looking for chefs that can accurately discriminate the foods cooked by the participants. How will you help the show in identifying their best chefs? How will you be able to know which chefs are better at distinguishing all the almost imperceptible gradations of the food? You should describe how you would create an activity that would allow you to classify the candidates
according to their taste abilities. Find, cite and explain the latest scientific research that will allow you to create this task. You will have to explain and convince to the Production team of the cooking show that your task will be able to discriminate the chefs by explaining to them how the taste system works.
Work inspired or/and adapted from:
David Kreiner (2009). Problem-Based Group Activities for a Sensation & Perception Course. Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology. OTRP online.http://teachpsych.org/resources/Documents/otrp/resources/kreiner09.pdf
Corral (2015). Psychophysiology Fridays. Student’s Handout. Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology. Universitat de Barcelona. Barcelona. Spain.
