Then & Now Unit 1

Read Unit1 in Then and Now on your McGraw Hill homepage before starting this assignment. 

The purpose of this first set of exercises is two-fold. The goal here is for you to think about the articles you read in Unit 1, but also to help you master APA style, which is the system used for writing academic documents that has been developed by the American Psychological Association and is widely used in the social sciences. Your assignment is to write and submit a very short paper using APA style. However, this will be the only unit for which your critical thinking responses will be submitted in this way. All of the others only require you to enter your responses in text boxes , not as a formal APA style paper.

There exist many sources to help you master APA style and hopefully you have learned about these in your studies. One excellent source for APA style has been developed by the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (the OWL) and can be found at following : https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/in_text_citations_the_basics.html Links to an external site. .

Using a word processing program such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs, your assignment is to write and submit a short paper using APA style that includes the following elements:

• Running head and page numbers on each page
• Cover page with title, author (your name), and author institution (page 1)
• Abstract (page 2)—the abstract should be between 75 and 100 words
• Introduction (begins on page 3)—this can be brief, but it must:
  • Cite the article by Collins, Guterstam, Cronin, Olson, Ehrsson, and Ojemann (2017), and
  • Cite at least one other scientific article that you find on your own that uses brain stimulation in some applied way, for example, as the articles cited in Part II of the Biological Foundations unit do. You may not use any of the articles cited in Part II, but you may use articles that those papers cite. To search for scientific articles on the OSU Library database, try using this Step-by-step guide.  Download Step-by-step guide. 
• A section that answers the following question: Based on the findings of Collins et al., how would you create a feeling that a prosthetic limb “belonged” to a person with an amputated hand? Include your answer under a second-level header that begins immediately following the end of the introduction.
• A section that addresses the following: Describe how weeks or months of experience with your system described in the previous section will influence the process of the limb “belonging” to the person. Include your answer under a second-level header that begins immediately following the end of the previous section. The introduction and these two response sections should be approximately 700 words total, or about two typed pages using 12-point font and 1-inch margins.
• A References page (final page of paper)—this will include the Collins et al. article and the article that you choose (you may include others if you wish provided you have mentioned them somewhere in your paper)

Since this is not a report of an experiment that you have done, you will not include Method, Results, or Discussion sections.