POSTING of a minimum of 8 complete sentences by 11pm, Th, 07/08.
There are four topic options listed below. Please choose one topic option to write about in your posting. If more than one website is listed for a topic option, you may write about one or both websites concerning that topic in your posting.
Please give your posting an actual title (not “Forum 5”) so readers know which topic you chose.
If you quote from a website in your posting, the format below is suggested for this class. Remember that neglecting to put a direct quote in quotation marks is plagiarism even if the source is given.
In the article “Paying Attention: A Leap Toward Quality Care,” Mary Piven and others observe that “other disciplines, such as social work and maintenance, can contribute meaningful resident information that if attended to will avert potential problems” (Online, available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1948878/).
OPTION 1–PHYSIOLOGY OF ADDICTION/”ADDICTIVE PERSONALITY”
Read and write in your posting about one or more things you learned after reading at least one website below. In your posting, you may write about one website or about more than one website listed below.
“How Addiction Hijacks the Brain” available at https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/how-addiction-hijacks-the-brain Read more about the physiology of addiction.
Do genetics or personality traits have any effect on addiction? Read “What is an addictive personality” from Healthline available at https://www.healthline.com/health/addictive-personality-traits#takeaway AND/OR read”Genetics: no more addictive personality” at https://www.nature.com/articles/522S48a
OPTION 2–ADDICTION: SOCIAL MEDIA AND PHONES
Read and write in your posting about one or more things you learned after reading one or both website(s) below.
“Social media copies gambling ‘to create psychological cravings'” available at https://ihpi.umich.edu/news/social-media-copies-gambling-methods-create-psychological-cravings
“Six ways to reduce phone separation anxiety” available at https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/urban-survival/202002/six-ways-reduce-phone-separation-anxiety
OPTION 3–FAST FOOD
Read and write in your posting about one or more things you learned after reading at least one website below. In your posting, you may write about one website or about more than one website listed below.
Read “7 Reasons We Can’t Turn Down Fast Food” from Psychology Today available at https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/you-illuminated/201108/7-reasons-we-cant-turn-down-fast-food AND/OR “Why Junk Food Is So Addictive” available at https://kaynutrition.com/2019/04/why-junk-food-is-so-addictive/
OPTION 4–DYSLEXIA, NEURODIVERSITY, COCHLEAR IMPLANTS
Read and write in your posting about one or more things you learned after reading at least one website below. In your posting, you may write about one website or about more than one website listed below.
“What does a dylexic person see when she reads?” available at https://www.dyslexia.com/question/what-dyslexics-see/ or “This is what reading is like if you have dyslexia” available at https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/05/health/dyslexia-simulation/index.html
“What is neurodiversity?” available at https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/my-life-aspergers/201310/what-is-neurodiversity
“Why some people turn down a ‘medical miracle’ and choose to stay deaf” available at https://www.businessinsider.com/why-deaf-people-turn-down-cochlear-implants-2016-12
Make a response of a minimum of 8 complete sentences to one other student’s posting by 11pm, Su, 07/11.
If you do choose to offer additional information in your response to the other student’s posting by including a quote from a website, the format below is suggested for this class. Remember that neglecting to put a direct quote in quotation marks is plagiarism even if the source is given. Also, listing Work(s) Cited at the end of a posting is not the appropriate format for this class. A citation must be provided immediately after a quotation.
In the article “Paying Attention: A Leap Toward Quality Care,” Mary Piven and others observe that “other disciplines, such as social work and maintenance, can contribute meaningful resident information that if attended to will avert potential problems” (Online, available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1948878/).