Assessment Brief

Learning Outcome 1: Knowledge and Understanding:Demonstrate a critical awareness of how feelings can be understood from various perspectives in psychology

Learning Outcome 2: Communication: Demonstrate effective written communication

Learning Outcome 3: Critical Thinking:Select and evaluate appropriate psychological references for application to real world issues, and recognise competing perspectives and synthesise information from such perspectives and/or sources.

Learning Outcome 4: Employability:Reflect on skills development and the ability to convey messages concisely

Read this assessment brief carefully, it tells you how you are going to be assessed, how to submit your assessment on-time, how your work will be marked and how you'll receive your marks and feedback.

Topic - Do patti movie

Assessment - Series of PowerPoint Slides and Annotated Bibliography

Assessment Description: Using one or two films / books / TV series as your source material, produce a series of slides in PowerPoint applying five different psychological perspectives to aspects of the source material(s). You will not be asked to present this for the final assessment.

You will also be required to submit an annotated bibliography, which you used to develop your series of slides. Your Experts Are Ready - Hire Now!

The source material
Films, books and TV series can all make appropriate source material. You will need to answer psychological questions about relationships and emotional experience and sensation (see below and lectures for details). You may find it easier to choose one film to deal with relationships and another to deal with mood and sensation. However, you can work with only one source material if you wish.

The PowerPoint Slides
Using your source material(s), produce a series of slides in PowerPoint exploring to what extent the following psychological theories and evidence can help us understand a series of psychological questions of your own design.

Slide 1: A brief introduction to the source material. Give enough background that someone who isn't familiar with the source can understand the key relationships / behaviours / feelings that are relevant to your presentation.
Slides 2 - 6: Each slide will take one psychological perspective on an aspect of the source material. You will develop one psychologically informed question for each perspective. Each slide will then attempt to answer that question by thinking about the source material from the perspective in question.
For each perspective you must produce one clear, informative slide based on referenced evidence. Slides should adhere to the following structure:
Slide two: Take an evolutionary approach to explore one relationship from your source material.
Slide three: Take a developmental approach to explore one relationship from your source material (this doesn't have to be the same relationship as in slides 2 & 4)
Slide four: Take a social psychological approach to explore one relationship from your source material (this doesn't have to be the same relationship as in slide 2 & 3)
Slide five: Take a critical mental health perspective (clinical psychology perspective) on one character's mood, mental health or wellbeing. It is permitted to speculate about the character's possible present, past or future mental health if this is not stated explicitly in the source.
Slide six: Take a psychobiological perspective on one character's experience of feelings, sensations or behaviour (e.g. euphoria, aggression, pain, etc.).
Slide seven: A concluding evaluative slide. Consider the relative value of each approach you have considered. How well did they allow you to answer your questions? What are some of the strengths and limitations of these perspectives when thinking about relationships, feelings and human behaviour?
Slide eight: A reference list in APA format (use additional slides if necessary)

For each perspective refer to a minimum of two journal articles (theories or empirical studies) that relate to that perspective. You can either find articles that support each other, or ones that offer contradictory or critical views.

Word count: Aim for no more than150 - 200 words per slide. This provides an exercise in writing concisely to convey information.

The Annotated Bibliography

For the annotated bibliography you are required to provide references and notes on publications that contributed to the development of slides two - six. You should write about 10 references overall, two from each of the slides. This involves providing an APA formatted reference plus a brief summary of the paper. This should be between 100 and 150 words per entry, and should be both descriptive and evaluative. Please add this to the end of your PowerPoint slides (with one reference per slide).What is the authors' position/ argument?

What are the premises the authors have presented to support their argument?

Are all the propositions true and the premises strong(and could anything else explain the authors' observations?)?

Are the reasons supported with sound evidence?

Is the argument well-structured and easy to follow?

Are the reasons clearly linked to one another and to the conclusion?

Is all the text relevant to the argument?

Are there any internal inconsistencies?

Are there any logical inconsistencies?

Are all assumptions reasonable?

Are there any false premises?

Is there any use of hidden assumptions as reasons to justify the argument (jumping to conclusions)?

Are there any false correlations or false analogies or unwarranted leaps?

Are there any connotations, latent messages or stereotyping (see below for explanations of these)?

Are there any opinions presented as facts?

Are there any over-generalisations?

Are there any unsupported assertions? (claims/statements made without any evidence to back them up)

Are there other ways in which the evidence presented might be interpreted?

Is there any reason the author could be biased?

Any other points to comment on?