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As part of the formal assessment for the programme, you are required to submit an Introduction to Biological and Cognitive Psychology essay, a narrated PowerPoint presentation and a transcript of the narrated PowerPoint presentation. Please refer to your Student Handbook for full details of the programme assessment scheme and general information on preparing and submitting assignments. Learning Outcomes: After completing the module, you should be able to: 1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the basic structure and function of the nervous system. 2. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of fundamental concepts in cognitive psychology. 3. Recognise distinctive approaches and methods employed by biological and cognitive psychologists. 4. Communicate ideas effectively. Your assignment should include a title page that contains your student number, the module name, the submission deadline and a word count. Your assignment should also include the appendices (if relevant) and a reference list in the appropriate format (see the Referencing Guidance section on page 5). You should address all of the elements of the assignment task listed below. Maximum word/time limit: There is a 2000 word limit for part 1 (the essay). There is also a 15 minute narration limit and a 2000 word transcript limit for part 2 (the presentation). Please note that exceeding the word count by over 10% will result in a reduction in grade by the same percentage that the word count is exceeded. You must not include your name in your submission because Arden University operates an anonymous marking policy. Subsequently, the markers should not be made aware of your identity. However, please do include your student (STU) number. Page 2 of 9 [1309] Assignment Task Part 1: Essay on Biological Psychology Task summary: Construct a 2000 word essay on the following topic: Discuss examples of how genetic and environmental factors can affect the brain. Please include examples from multiple different stages of the lifespan. You should support your arguments with scientific research papers throughout your essay. You can find these papers in the lessons, but you be awarded extra marks for finding papers through independent wider reading. Additional guidance: • In your essay, you should include research into environmental factors and research into genetic factors. Examples of environmental factors include (but are not limited to) social interactions, exposure to chemicals, exposure to physical harm or emotional harm and patterns of behaviour. Examples of genetic factors include (but are not limited to) genetic disorders, genetically inherited characteristics and genetic predispositions. You do not have to consider every single environmental factor and every single genetic factor listed here. • You need to cover multiple stages of the lifespan. For example, the pre-natal, post-natal, infant, childhood, adolescent, young adult, adult or elderly stages of life. You do not need to discuss all of these stages, but you do need to discuss more than one. Your examples do not have to fit neatly into one of the stages mentioned above, but it should be clear which part of the lifespan each example relates to. You can use examples which cover multiple stages of the lifespan (for example, looking at how alcohol affects the brain of neo-nates and then how it affects the brains of adults) or different examples for different stages of the lifespan. • You need to support your arguments with scientific research papers. You can find these papers in the lessons, and you will still get good marks for doing so, but you will be awarded extra marks for finding some of your papers through independent wider reading. Here is a video that will guide you through the process of finding your own research papers: • When discussing scientific research papers, it is worth mentioning the methods used by the researchers and their main findings. You do not have to relay all of the technical and statistical information here. Rather, you just need to clearly present ‘what they did’ and ‘what they found’. For example: What were the Page 3 of 9 [1309] different conditions in the study? What kind of data were they recording (fMRI, EEG etc.)? Which areas of the brain were involved?