Directions You may write in any format you wish,

Directions You may write in any format you wish, but a helpful way to think about approaching this piece is to imagine yourself as a writer for a general circulation magazine or newspaper. Your editor has asked you to read this article and present it to the general public. This means that it does not need to have formal citations. It should clearly communicate the key elements of how the researchers conducted the study, including the scientific aspects of the research as listed below. (Suggestion: keep your eye open for these kinds of reports in newspapers and magazines or TV.) Your report will be evaluated according to how well it: * Introduces the topic (i.e., piques a readers interest) * Identifies two previous findings (in this article) that support the hypothesis that musical training might increase intelligence * States the research hypothesis * Identifies the independent and dependent variables. (Hint: The IV is what the researcher manipulated; the DV is what the researcher measured, and is generally reported as an outcome, or result.) * Identifies the control groups and experimental groups (note the use of the plural!) * Defines confounding variable and identifies a possible confounding variable * Summarizes the conclusions. What did the researcher find? * Discusses limitations and future implications of the results regarding measuring intelligence. For examples: Would it have been more beneficial to measure emotional intelligence and creativity as well as general intelligence? Does this mean that people who take music lessons are smarter than those who do not take music lessons? Is there a limitation to the generalizability of results to other populations? Source Materials Learning Goals Learning Goals: After completing this assignment, the student should be able to: (1) identify previous research studies within a literature review that supports the hypothesis of a research study (2) identify the hypothesis of the study (3) define and identify the independent and dependent variables of a research study (4) identify the control groups and experimental groups in this study (5) define what a confounding variable is and identify a possible confounding variable in this study (6) communicate the conclusions of the study to the reader. (7) describe limitations and future implications of the results regarding improving intelligence Source Materials To begin with this assignment, you will read an article called Music Lessons Enhance IQ. After reading this article, go back to your textbook and review the chapters covering research methodology and cognition and intelligence. This will help to remind you of the concepts relevant to understanding and interpreting results from this particular study examining the influence of musical lessons on intelligence. You can access the journal article under the content link in D2L. NOTE: This article is written for psychology professionals, but does not contain concepts or techniques that are beyond the undergraduate level, except in the Results section. Youre not expected to understand the mathematical/statistical reports, but you can nevertheless get a good understanding of what they mean by carefully reading the authors verbal descriptions of the results, and by looking at the graphical presentation in Figure 1. Guidance for Studying Source Materials Write a 330-650 word essay that summarizes the research findings of the article entitled Music lessons enhance IQ. Using information from the text, lecture, and any other sources, your essay should represent your best understanding of the steps conducted when performing a scientific investigation as it applies to this specific research study. You will identify the hypothesis, the research variables, characteristics of the participants, type of measures used, data collection methods, authors conclusions, and limitations of the findings. Guidance for Writing Your Text Write a 330-600 word essay that summarizes the research findings of the article entitled: Music lessons enhance IQ. Using information from the textbook, lecture, and any other sources, your essay should represent your best understanding of the steps conducted when performing a scientific investigation as it applies to this specific research study, as well as limitations and future implications of the results regarding intelligence. Dont forget to put the paragrah HTML code in front of each new paragraph in your text entry. (If you do not, your essay will lack lines between paragraphs.) Writing Prompt You may write in any format you wish, but a helpful way to think about approaching this piece is to imagine yourself as a writer for a general circulation magazine or newspaper. Your editor has asked you to read this article and present it to the general public. This means that it does not need to have formal citations. It should clearly communicate the key elements of how the researchers conducted the study, including the scientific aspects of the research as listed below. (Suggestion: keep your eye open for these kinds of reports in newspapers and magazines or TV.) Your report will be evaluated according to how well it: * Introduces the topic (i.e., piques a readers interest) * Identifies two previous findings (in this article) that support the hypothesis that musical training might increase intelligence * States the research hypothesis * Identifies the independent and dependent variables. (Hint: The IV is what the researcher manipulated; the DV is what the researcher measured, and is generally reported as an outcome, or result.) * Identifies the control groups and experimental groups (note the use of the plural!) * Defines confounding variable and identifies a possible confounding variable * Summarizes the conclusions. What did the researcher find? * Discusses limitations and future implications of the results regarding measuring intelligence. For examples: Would it have been more beneficial to measure emotional intelligence and creativity as well as general intelligence? Does this mean that people who take music lessons are smarter than those who do not take music lessons? Is there a limitation to the generalizability of results to other populations? Required Text Entry Length: 330 to 650 words Be sure be good in these things 1. Conventions: Is the essay free of notable problems with any of the following elements: spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar/usage, and paragraphing. Writing that is strong in Conventions has been proofread and edited with care. 2. Ideas: Does the writer demonstrate understanding of differences in brain function by effectively including examples of how each of the brain parts function in the context of socializing, eating pizza, and playing cards? 3. Organization: Does the essay contains an appropriate introduction and conclusion, along with connecting transitions for all of the concepts in the essay, not just some of them. 4. Voice: Does is seem that the writer was personally engaged with the topicthat he/she imparts a personal tone and flavor to the piece that is unmistakably his/hers alone? 5. Word Choice: Word Choice is the use of rich, colorful, precise language that communicates not just in a functional way, but in a way that moves and enlightens the reader. In descriptive writing, strong word choice resulting in imagery, especially sensory, show-me writing, clarifies and expands ideas. Good word choice makes use of precise words and avoids vague word and unnecessarily repeated words. A=Superior use of words, examples, and images that are also not overdone. B=Well done, but not exceptional word choices. C=Boring, ordinary, uninspired word choices most of the time.