1) Find an online or print magazine article (Parents, Parenting, Baby Talk, Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, AARP, Readers Digest, just to name a few options), a newspaper article, editorial, or advice column.
2) Summarize this written source.
3) Analyze: Which theory, finding, or issue related to this course does this article relate to? Is it accurately reflecting the research presented in your text? Does it refute or contradict the research? Make a case for either.
a. In other words: Does this item agree with the research in our text? Is it a good fit? Why or why not? Now is the time to really think about how developmental psych research applies to our lives. For instance, anyone can give advice. You may find an article written by a celebrity that praises co-sleeping with your infant and makes a lot of claims about the benefits of doing so. This celebrity is not a psychologist or pediatrician; they may or may not have valid points backed up by research. Your job is to evaluate the claims being made and critically think about how the claims made by this person are either supported wholly, partially, or not at all by the research and theory in the science of psychology. Make it evident that you understand whether this article supports, contradicts, or expands on the research in the text. (Since these article types are not peer-reviewed journal articles, you want to discuss whether the writer is quoting actual researchers or citing evidence from legitimate studies or not. If so, is the author accurately interpreting the scientists and their work?)
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