Hello, My Name is Dan Hurlburt, I am a junior at the University of Dayton and I am Majoring in Psychology and Minoring in Biology.
Hi Danhurlburt! This is Dr. D. I have reviewed, briefly, the interesting articles you have posted to your queue and find these articles very doable: Self and Identity, Purposive behaviorism, Biological psychopathology, and Functional analysis (psychology). The article, cognitive map, has already been selected. The other, personality pathology, is not as doable because, although this article may be relevant to the history of psychology, it needs a lot of tweaking. Also, it is rather a recent and somewhat esoteric construct.
You have 4 excellent choices. I suggest that you select one of those, and focus on it for your project. Thank you! WebFlower1 (talk) 20:53, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Article: Biological Psychopathology
Outline of Changes/Additions:
The Biological Psychopathology Article is greatly lacking content and needs a great deal of elaboration it has a few links to other relevant sites, but many more added. The article is not divided up well into headings and subheadings and lacks the use of references. It will need a great deal of additional information as well as organizational structure, and references to back up important aspects of the field.
Dr. Davis I am starting over on organizing my article I realized that since this is a very general topic I will need to only include information that is truly about the topic and the history of its development, if I get too much into detail about the specific areas of the field then the article could go on forever. I am going to begin by adding some basic history of the field and uploading that to the article page. Then from there I may mention some of the specific techniques and processes used, but only briefly, it will not be as in depth as the first outline that I sent you, that was on course to be a very very long article. Thanks for the input. I think I understand now why the original article on Wikipedia is so brief, because there is so much to mention it would take forever. I will basically break it down into this type of format:
1. List the Definition/ add onto the definition provided and allude to any similarly related fields, while breaking down the definition into its component parts that may need brief descriptions in order to understand the field. 2. List its range of focus or its scope and give more details forming a more comprehensive understanding. 3. Name the origins and Basis for the field of Biological Psychopathology organizing its history. 4. Touch on the topics of treatment and diagnosing the disorders relating to the field (not go too far into detail since these topics will have their own pages explaining them further) (so I will add links) 5. List references
References:
Cicchetti, D., & Posner, M. I. (2005). Cognitive and affective neuroscience and developmental psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology, 17(03), 569-575. Retrieved from http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=349100&jid=DPP&volumeId=17&issueId=03&aid=349099
Gleitman, H., Fridlund, A. J., & Reisberg, D. (2004).Psychology. (6 ed., pp. 642-715). New York, NY: W W Norton & Co Inc.
Hariri, A. R. (2009, November). Biological pathways to psychopathology. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2009/11/sci-brief.aspx
Kalat, J. W. (2010). Biological psychology. (10 ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Pub Co.
Pennington, B. F., & Ozonoff, S. (2006). Executive functions and developmental psychopathology. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry,37(1), 51-87. Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7610.1996.tb01380.x/pdf