You will write a critical review that synthesizes your reactions to the two articles. Your paper must be APA style (e.g., title page, no abstract, double-spaced, reference page). The paper should be 600-800 words. Please use the following organization.
a. The first section should include a general summary of the studies conducted (between 200-400 words).
b. The second section should involve your critical analysis of the articles (less than 600-800 words). Identify and defend the article that makes the strongest argument and will have the more significant impact on the topic/population it is written about. Integrate information from your course into the critique of the article. You might discuss the practical significance of the research.
c. The third section will involve your suggestions for future research in this area, based on what you have learned in your course. This should not be a summary of what the authors suggested as recommendations for future research, but rather, your own personal suggestions for future research based on the reported findings.
d. Please use headings in alignment with APA style (i.e., Summary, Analysis, Suggestions for Future Research). The paper will be graded based on the quality of content and alignment with APA style. Each article may earn up to four credits toward your research requirement. You must turn in both your summary/analysis of the article and a PDF of the article (or link to the article if a PDF is not available) when you submit your work for this alternative. Be sure to write your paper in your own words! Using actual phrases from the article without quotes is plagiarism. Paraphrasing sentences (e.g., substituting words here and there) is also plagiarism. Using the authors’ ideas without providing credit is also plagiarism. You also may not plagiarize your own work from another course. Any plagiarism will result in zero credit for the assignment.
2. PART 2: You will write a critical review that synthesizes your reactions to the two articles. Your paper must be APA style (e.g., title page, no abstract, double-spaced, reference page). The paper should be 600-800 words. Please use the following organization.
a. The first section should include a general summary of the studies conducted (between 200-400 words).
b. The second section should involve your critical analysis of the articles (less than 600-800 words). Identify and defend the article that makes the strongest argument and will have the more significant impact on the topic/population it is written about. Integrate information from your course into the critique of the article. You might discuss the practical significance of the research.
c. The third section will involve your suggestions for future research in this area, based on what you have learned in your course. This should not be a summary of what the authors suggested as recommendations for future research, but rather, your own personal suggestions for future research based on the reported findings.
d. Please use headings in alignment with APA style (i.e., Summary, Analysis, Suggestions for Future Research). The paper will be graded based on the quality of content and alignment with APA style. Each article may earn up to four credits toward your research requirement. You must turn in both your summary/analysis of the article and a PDF of the article (or link to the article if a PDF is not available) when you submit your work for this alternative. Be sure to write your paper in your own words! Using actual phrases from the article without quotes is plagiarism. Paraphrasing sentences (e.g., substituting words here and there) is also plagiarism. Using the authors’ ideas without providing credit is also plagiarism. You also may not plagiarize your own work from another course. Any plagiarism will result in zero credit for the assignment.
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Critical review: Psychology articles
This critical review summarizes and critically analyses the two psychology articles, “Correlation of Depression, Behavioral Disorder and Delirium with Certain Genetic Abnormalities in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease” and Beyond actions: Reparatory effects of regret in intergroup trust games”. Further, this paper looks at the possible areas of further research with regard to the articles.
General summary of the studies
The objective of the article “Correlation of Depression, Behavioral Disorder and Delirium with Certain Genetic Abnormalities in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease” was to find out how particular genetic abnormalities influence some clinical features, specifically the dementia syndrome. This involved collecting blood samples from86 ambulatory patientssuffering from Alzheimer’s disease(AD) and 97 other people of a similar age as a control group. A statistical analysis led to the assumption that “the presence of the G/G polymorphism in neurotropic factor of the brain and the A/G in 5-HT2A-receptors can manifest as a protective factor of delirium incidence among the patients with AD. This was a pilot study with a follow up study planned.
For the article “Beyond actions: Reparatory effects of regret in intergroup trust games”, the aim was to establish how regret after economic decisions influence intergroup trust. This involved a series of three studies where group members played two-round trust games with another group. The findings were that subsequent interactions “were driven by regret increasing intergroup trust, rather than by happiness decreasing it” and influenced by a group’s perceptions of the extent an outgroup member was willing to change their behavior. Hence “regret expressions influence intergroup trust by attenuating the detrimental effects of unfair behavior”.
Critical analysis of the studies
That the second study on intergroup trust affects individual, corporate and societal interactions means that it has a wider impact than the first study that focuses on the dementia syndrome and targets clinicians. Further, the first study was a pilot study that led to assumptions that would form the basis of a subsequent study whereas the second study was complete being a series of three studies with more concrete findings and conclusions. With a more detailed report divided into the topics Introduction, Study 1, Study 2, Study 3, General Discussion and Appendix, each of the three studies in the second study has the subtopicsMethods, Results and Discussion.This is compared to the first article that has no subheadings for the topics Introduction, Overview, Methods,Results and Discussion. The second article was also published in a more established journal that has external peer reviewers and has been in publication in both print and electronic format for a long time compared to the journal for the first article that has an in-house editorial team peer reviewing the articles and that has been published online only for a relatively shorter time. The authors for the second article have affiliations for universities in US, UK and Germany while for the first article both the authors are affiliated to General University Hospital in Czech Republic.
Suggested areas for research
The first study was interested in the occurrence of depressions, behavioral disorders and associated deliriums. Further research can look at other influenced clinical features. The population sample is also too small leading to inconclusive findings. This can be expanded beyond the university hospital and into other countries and environmental settings. There is also need to research further on the major result of the study that the authors note as “the finding of higher number of polymorphisms G/G for BDNF and A/G for 5-HT2Aserotoninergic receptors among patients that didn’t suffer from deliriums”.
Further areas for research for the second study include establishing intergroup trust beyond the stimuli of facial expression and text-and-pictogram descriptions. The intergroup trust can also explore other emotions apart from regret……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
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