Assignment
Based on your topic selection and research in your Project Two milestone, create a technology and cognition blog post. You must address the rubric criteria listed below in about 600 to 900 words total:
For this project, you will create a technology and cognition blog post with the goal of educating a general audience, as well as healthcare providers, who are educated but not necessarily familiar with your topic of research. Do your best to summarize your sources in your own words with a scientific and formal but not overly technical tone. As such, do not use quotations in your blog, but be sure to use in-text citations and references appropriately.
Topic: The Effects of Scrolling Through Social Media on Various Aspects of Cognition
Sources Used in Milestone:
1. Attention to social media ads: The role of consumer recommendations and smartphones. Journal of Interactive Advertising, 21(3), 283-296.
2. foodie: Implications of interacting with social media for memory. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 5(1), 1-16.
3. The influence of social network size on speech perception. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(10), 2249-2260.
4. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 4(8), 634-640.
5. The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, 15.
Task
I. Topic Summary and Theory Background
a) Describe why research is being done on your selected topic.
b) Summarize how technology affects cognition for your selected topic.
c) Describe how a classic theory or concept in cognitive psychology applies to your selected topic. Examples include encoding specificity, levels of processing, late or early selection models, the multiple resources approach to attention, automaticity, and the dual-route model of language.
II. Compare and Contrast Primary Research Articles: To answer each of the questions below, compare and contrast two of the three primary sources you identified in your Project Two milestone. Incorporate all three primary sources in your responses.
1. Compare the use of participants in two primary sources of your choice. Consider how the choice of participants is relevant to the research or how comparing the participants could inform future research or different conclusions.
2. Compare the measures, tests, and research designs used in two primary sources and compare how these measures relate to the specific domains of cognition mentioned in the articles. Consider how the research methods used are relevant to the research and how they can inform future research or different conclusions.
3. Compare the limitations identified in two primary sources of your choice. Consider how the limitations are relevant to the research methodology implemented or conclusions drawn. For example, does the methodology in one article use procedures that can be used to infer causation more precisely and accurately? Does one source have a more representative sample than the other?
III. Conclusions
1. Describe your conclusions about your selected topic based on the research you have analyzed.
Format your assignment according to the give formatting requirements:
1. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.