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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:34, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

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Hey Katie. As off right now, I think our two best options for our wikipedia project would be either be improving the biopsychosocial model page, or creating a page for the goal progress theory of rumination, which does not already have a page. My only concern with the latter of the two is that it might not have enough history or information on it to have its own page. Another good option would be covering one of the psychologists from the list on blackboard. What do you thinK? Ivy.bergstrom (talk) 22:20, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

Also, I am just going down the list on the assignment 3 page to make sure we cover everything that was possibly suggested. 1. For the first strategy, we were recommended we look at our CCD. We both found phrenology interesting, however, I think the phrenology page is quite extensive and I do not know if there is much else to know that I could become an expert on, in order to add important information to the page. 2. The second strategy was to discuss things that interest us. Now, we discussed this in person, but I am going to reiterate this so the professor can read it: I find the things that help people de-stress to be interesting and important. I especially find it interesting how people who own plants (there is research suggesting that the type of plant matters) are calmer and people who have pets are happier, but I don't think there is a title for this phenomenon or enough information about it to write a whole wikipedia page on it. Generally, I want to know what causes this. This relates to environmental psychology. According to the wiki edu dash board, this page could be improved upon by verifying the citations. I don't know if that would be enough improving of a page to get us good credit for the assignment, do you? 3. If all else fails, and neither the biopsychosocial model page or goal progress theory of rumination page meets the professors standards, there are plenty of psychologists we could write about. Some of these professors fall under environmental psychology. Ivy.bergstrom (talk) 22:44, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

Hi Ivy, I'm so glad I finally found your Wikipedia user talk page. I have also read over the list of what we need to cover for assignment three, most of which seems to be resources for finding a topic.

I completely agree with you that while Phrenology was interesting it is really more of a pseudoscience with a very well established Wikipedia page. I also agree with you on using the second strategy and focusing on things that interest us, which we discussed mostly in-person. What I find particularly interesting is children & developmental psychology as well as Health psychology, due to my career aspirations to become a child life specialist.

Environmental Psychology does sound interesting but I feel that may be slightly too broad & focusing in the positive environmental factors that plants & animals provide may be too limiting. I think that, as you stated in your third point, we are best off on focusing on the Biopsychosocial Model or Goal Progress Theory of Rumination. For the professor, we happened upon these topics after thorough in-person discussion where we looked for an intersection between a lack of Wikipedia information on the topic, our own personal interest, & an abundance of outside reviewed information on the topic, per Wikipedia standards.

I believe I can speak for both of us in stating, that after lengthy discussion we decided on: 1. the Biopsychosocial Model, for our first choice 2. Goal Progress Theory of Rumination, for our second/ alternate choice Hillskay (talk) 07:07, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

Feedback from Dr. Council: I think the Biopsychosocial model is an excellent choice. It is a notable topic, seems to have a lot of potential for development. The current article is brief, but the reference list seems to have some really good sources. J.R. Council (talk) 18:15, 15 February 2019 (UTC)