Professional Publication Assignment: 10 points
The purpose of this assignment is to provide students an opportunity to familiarize themselves with published research.
The tasks of the assignment are as follows:
- Choose an empirical article from a professional journal where the author(s) describes the purpose, method, and results of a scientific investigation. Some examples of relevant journals in Developmental Psychology are:
- Developmental Psychology
- Human Development
- Merrill-Palmer Quarterly
- Child Development
- Adolescence
- Journal of Youth and Adolescence
- Journal of Early Adolescence
- Journal of Black Psychology
- Developmental Review
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Journal of Marriage and the Family
- Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences
- Death Studies
Note that not all research articles are complicated reading. As a novice, it might help to browse through the journals until you come upon one that is of interest, as well as readable. Students may use one from above