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PSYC 2301: Katakalos, David In-Person

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8:00am - 9:15am, Wednesday, November 13, 2019 (75 minutes) - MLC 209
Name: David Dimitri Katakalos
Email: dkatakalos@alamo.edu
Booking submitted: 02:15pm, Oct 29 2019
Course Name & Number (ie, Geography 1301):: PSYC 2301.010  
What general area of research or topics will your students be exploring?: Reading  
What will your students do or create with the sources they find?: Write APA style report paper  
On the day students attend the library class, **at what point will they be** in their research process?: specific research topic defined; they will need help evaluating evidence to address specific ideas or questions  
Notes (different start/end time, requests, etc.):: Research APA Style Assignment The Smithsonian report on Joanna Sikora's home libraries study published in Social Science Research will be the focus for this assignment. Three variables are to be considered in your library research: 1. Improved brain function 2. Stress Reduction 3. Improve empathetic response Find articles (3) that have validity for Sikora's findings. Please consider the type of research worldview (aka paradigm) as presented in each article. Four research worldviews are to be considered: 1. The Post-Positivist worldview closely follows the explanations for how research is done by psychologists as described in Huffman (pages 20-32): find ways to eliminate bias, use of treatment and control groups in experimental fashion; collecting data about phenomena to determine a correlation; and then applying statistical methodology to find significance – "What do Sikora's the results objectively mean?" 2. The Constructivist worldview comes from the agreement that reality  
Date:
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Time:
8:00am - 9:15am
Time Zone:
Central Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
MLC 209
College:
SAC
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