This assignment is designed to get you critically thinking and writing about how psychological issues are presented in the popular media. Magazine, newspaper, radio and tv accounts of psychological phenomena often are presented more to attract an audience than to provide fully accurate information. To complete this assignment, you will need to select a recent (within the past six months) media item. It can be magazine articles, newspaper articles, advertisements, commercials, radio broadcasts, or television news stories. For audio or visual items describe the item as closely as possible (e.g., by transcribing the script of a radio ad) or include a link to the item. This will be a brief essay–one page, double-spaced typing–on the connections between the media item and material from the course text or class. It’s essential to focus on the connections between the media item and psychological theories or research evidence. In addition, you are expected to find a relevant article from a psychology journal identified in the library databases (e.g., PsychInfo) and include information from the article in your brief essay.Note: This assignment pertains to basic psychology theories from Psychology 100.
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