Summarize the article in APA style and include the reference of the article itself at the end.
Article- Psychopathology in great apes: Concepts, treatment options and possible homologies to human psychiatric disorders
Source Summary-
You should be very careful to avoid plagiarism when summarizing your sources. All source content in your summaries should be in your own words (preferred) or in quotation marks with page numbers provided (try to avoid quotes). Keeping plagiarism out of your summaries is an important step in keeping it out of your literature review. DO NOT JUST READ AND SUMMARIZE THE ABSTRACT! READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED.
1. Identify the main research hypothesis or thesis.
2. Describe how the researchers tested their hypothesis/hypotheses. In other words, describe their methodology (what they did, including what behaviors they recorded, how often they observed the primates, how they recorded the data, etc), the participants (who were they, how many were used/observed, where were they housed, where were they from), and a brief overview of the procedure.
3. Describe what the researchers found (focus on their main findings from the results section, discussion, and conclusions). Make sure that you understand their overall results, including the statistics and charts/graphs/figures they reported.
Source Evaluation (Excerpted from Galvan, 2006, p. 8)
In addition to summarizing the relevant information from a source, you should also evaluate the information in the source. Critique/analysis of the literature is an important part of a good article summary.
• Are there any obvious problems with the way the authors are discussing the background literature, their methods, or misconstruing their findings? Explain.
• Are there any obvious biases from the authors trying to downplay abnormal behaviors or justify what they are doing for human good? Explain.
• Did you notice any other flaws? Explain.
• Overall, do you think the research makes an important contribution to advancing knowledge?
Critical Reading (Excerpted from Lawson, 1999)
You should find the following questions useful as you evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each of your sources.
• What is the quality of the evidence used to support the claim?
• Is there a control or comparison group against which to assess the performance of the experimental group?
• Is the person concluding there is a causal relationship on the basis of correlational data?
• Are there confounding variables that might account for the findings, or are there confounding variables that they are not considering (e.g. exposure to humans on a daily basis, invasive experimental procedures, single housing)?
• Has the person made it impossible to falsify his or her theory or hypothesis? Does he or she consider positive evidence as support for the theory but negative evidence as not being relevant?
• Is the person acknowledging that complex behaviors or phenomena have multiple causes?