Write a thought paper on one of the articles listed in the reading list with support from one research work.

Objectives:

To encourage to go beyond the lecture materials and raise their awareness in the current issues or debates in the field.

Task:

Write a thought paper on one of the articles listed in the reading list with support from one research work.

Content requirement:

1) Write a summary of the article listed in the course reading list

2) Comment on this article and provide a real-life example to illustrate your claim.

3) Your comment/discussion/suggestion must be supported by one other research work not listed in the course reading list or the reference list of your selected paper.

Format requirements:

1) Language: English
2) Citation and in-text citation: APA format
3) Double-line spacing
4) 12-pt Times New Roman
5) 1” on all margins
6) The reference page should start on a new page

Page limit:

600 words excluding the reference page

Course reading list

Language

Vigliocco, G., & Hartsuiker, R. J. (2002). The interplay of meaning, sound, and syntax in sentence production. Psychological bulletin, 128(3), 442.

Abutalebi, J., Annoni, J. M., Zimine, I., Pegna, A. J., Seghier, M. L., Lee-Jahnke, H., … & Khateb, A. (2008). Language control and lexical competition in bilinguals: an event-related fMRI study. Cerebral Cortex, 18(7), 1496-1505.
Bialystok, E. (2009). Bilingualism: The good, the bad, and the indifferent. Bilingualism: Language and cognition, 12(01), 3-11.

Lupyan, G., & Clark, A. (2015). Words and the world: Predictive coding and the language-perception-cognition interface. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24, 279-284. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963721415570732
Sosa, A.V. (2016). Association of the Type of Toy Used During Play With the Quantity and Quality of Parent-Infant Communication. JAMA Pediatrics,170(2),132–137. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2015.3753

Bowers, J. S., & Bowers, P. N. (2018). Progress in reading instruction requires a better understanding of the English spelling system. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27, 407-412. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963721418773749

Antón, E., Carreiras, M., & Duñabeitia, J. A. (2019). The impact of bilingualism on executive functions and working memory in young adults. PloS one, 14(2), e0206770.

Nichols, E. S., Wild, C. J., Stojanoski, B., Battista, M. E., & Owen, A. M. (2020). Bilingualism affords no general cognitive advantages: a population study of executive function in 11,000 people. Psychological Science, 31(5), 548-567.

Decision-making & Reasoning

Tversky, A. & Kahneman, D. (1983). Extension versus intuitive reasoning: The conjunction fallacy in probability judgment. Psychological Review, 90, 293–315

Deakin, J., Aitken, M., Robbins, T., & Sahakian, B. J. (2004). Risk taking during decision-making in normal volunteers changes with age. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 10(04), 590-598.
Stanovich, K. E., & West, R. F. (2008). On the relative independence of thinking biases and cognitive ability. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 672-95.

Weber, E., & Johnson, E. (2009). Mindful judgment and decision making. Annual Review of Psychology, 60, 53-85
van Prooijen, J.-W., & van Vugt, M. (2018). Conspiracy theories: Evolved functions and psychological mechanisms. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13, 770-788. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1745691618774270

Orquin, J. L., Perkovic, S., & Grunert, K. G. (2018). Visual biases in decision making. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 40(4), 523-537.

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