I am not sure if I have to do this again..but here it is. [[1]] (Tiffanybn (talk) 04:32, 28 September 2011 (UTC))Reply

So this is the assignment for week four; linking each others user page. [[2]] (Aspadoni206 (talk) 19:22, 24 September 2011 (UTC))Reply

Hey so for week four we are supposed to link each others user page. Here is mine! [[3]] (Kyokoyama (talk) 22:24, 18 September 2011 (UTC))Reply


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Hey Nicole! Hopefully this works..and I hope you are doing well :) See you tomorrow! (Tiffanybn (talk) 00:06, 13 September 2011 (UTC))Reply

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Hey, here is my list of ideas! [[4]] (Tiffanybn (talk) 23:50, 21 September 2011 (UTC))Reply

Feedback - Week 4 Assignments edit

Hi Nicole, Nice job with edits to the page and in linking those ideas to my talk page (and your fellow group members' talk pages - Alex just came on board so from her on out make sure to also include him). In terms of feedback on the potential topics. Gerascophobia seems problematic from the standpoint of a non-existent literature (if I used gerontophobia there were 8 published articles - most quite dated). If you can't access reliable and valid information about the topic your ability to contribute will be limited. Both alogia and pica seem workable. Although there already is a decent structure present for both there also is a substantial literature that you should be able to consult to learn more about both and ultimately write about and share that knowledge in expanding the articles. In general, it will be easier for you to focus on a topic that is stub-quality or weakly developed (or perhaps hasn't even been written about at all). From the handout in this week's recommended readings on choosing an article:

Advice for choosing articles to work on

  • Choose a term that is well established in the discipline, but only weakly represented on Wikipedia. The best choice is a topic where a lot of literature is available, but isn't covered extensively on Wikipedia.
  • Scope: Look for topics that are specific and narrow enough to be manageable, but broad enough that sufficient sources exist to write a solid, sizable article.
  • Gravitate toward "stub" and "start" class articles. These articles have only 1-2 paragraphs of information and are in need of expansion.
  • Before creating a new article, spend 15-20 minutes searching related topics on Wikipedia to make sure your topic isn't already covered. Often, an article may already exist under another name or be a subsection of a broader article.

What to avoid for student projects

  • Trying to improve articles on very broad topics (e.g. Law) or articles that are already of high quality on Wikipedia
  • Trying to improve articles on topics that are highly controversial, e.g. Global Warming, Abortion, Scientology, etc. (Start a sub-article instead.)
  • Working on something only sparsely covered by literature
  • Starting articles with titles that imply an essay-like approach, e.g. “The Effects That The Recent Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis has had on the US and Global Economics” instead of “Subprime mortgage crisis” — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tatompki (talkcontribs) 20:05, 26 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

Let me know how I can help along the way! Tatompki (talk) 20:25, 26 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

Feedback - Week 5 Assignments edit

Excellent work! You are really getting the hang of editing (including providing constructive suggestions on the talk page along with edit summaries), linking and referencing. You did provide a reference but it was from about.com. I encourage you to look again at what is meant by reliable sources (i.e., when you write your article you will want to rely almost exclusively on peer-reviewed, published literature which can be found on the library website using EBSCOhost and/or PsycINFO). Hopefully your group is getting a bit closer to narrowing down to your topic? Let me know if you need any help! Tatompki (talk) 17:03, 30 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia End of Semester Profile edit

Peer Review edit

04:04, 15 November 2011 (diff | hist) Talk:Exercise addiction ‎ (→Peer Review)

For the Classification section I would say that some general rewording of the sentences would be very helpful, especially in the last senctence. An addiction and a compulsion are different things, but it was hard to tell exactly what you were trying to accomplish with that sentence. If you could give an example of how an addiction to exercise and someone who just has a compulsion to exercise are different I think it would be very helpful in making that point clearer to the reader.

In Signs and Symptoms, the main thing is describing what "detrimental" means. If there is any research that can give a better definition of detrimental or time/intensity qualification into what makes it detrimental that would be very helpful since detrimental can be taken to be something different by different people. Possibly in this section talk about what type of exercise(s) the person does or if it varies between the individual suffering from the addiction.

Finally, I think comorbidity and causes could be combined into one section because the presence of an eating disorder seems like it could be a cause of suffering from the addiction. However, all in all, I think that the article was well written for a first draft and after some minor editing of those sections and punctuation errors it will work great.

Nbarton10 (talk) 04:04, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Communication edit

  • 06:18, 29 September 2011 (diff | hist) Talk:Pica (disorder)
  • 07:52, 13 October 2011 (diff | hist) Talk:Pica (disorder) ‎ (→Project Plan)

We will add links of the resources we find onto either the pica talk page or our group members page in case an article or book provides help to more than one area

  • 05:22, 1 November 2011 (diff | hist) Talk:Pica (disorder) ‎

Hey guys! Here is the citation of a journal article I found that will help me do the history section. I also wanted to let you guys all now that there are quite a few articles on pica that can be found with the Linfield library article search in case you guys were having trouble finding anything. Parry-Jones, B., & Parry-Jones, W. L. (January 01, 1992). Pica: symptom or eating disorder? A historical assessment. The British Journal of Psychiatry : the Journal of Mental Science, 160, 341-54

  • 23:22, 4 November 2011 (diff | hist) Talk:Pica (disorder) ‎ (→Project Plan)

Hey everyone I added some of the information about the history of pica eating disorder. I have not finished reading one of the articles I found yet so there will be more information on this section coming in the future.

  • 04:04, 15 November 2011 (diff | hist) Talk:Exercise addiction ‎ (→Peer Review)

For the Classification section I would say that some general rewording of the sentences would be very helpful, especially in the last senctence. An addiction and a compulsion are different things, but it was hard to tell exactly what you were trying to accomplish with that sentence. If you could give an example of how an addiction to exercise and someone who just has a compulsion to exercise are different I think it would be very helpful in making that point clearer to the reader.

In Signs and Symptoms, the main thing is describing what "detrimental" means. If there is any research that can give a better definition of detrimental or time/intensity qualification into what makes it detrimental that would be very helpful since detrimental can be taken to be something different by different people. Possibly in this section talk about what type of exercise(s) the person does or if it varies between the individual suffering from the addiction.

Finally, I think comorbidity and causes could be combined into one section because the presence of an eating disorder seems like it could be a cause of suffering from the addiction. However, all in all, I think that the article was well written for a first draft and after some minor editing of those sections and punctuation errors it will work great.

  • 02:26, 16 November 2011 (diff | hist) Talk:Pica (disorder) ‎ (→Rough Draft)

Self Group Critique

After looking at another group's article and thinking about what we should add to ours I have come up with a few suggestions. First, I think that we should really try to include a picture in some section of our article, however I am not quite sure where exactly the best fit for that would be. Secondly, I don't know if anyone has looked up the DSM-IV definition for pica, but it would be a good reference for the symptoms section. Professor Tompkins might even have one we could borrow in order to accomplish that. Finally, I think we are just going to need to go over the article a few more times in order to make sure that we are not being repetitive in any areas.

All in all though, I think we have a solid start to the article and after a little work it will be a lot more complete than when we began. Oh and I will take the responsibility of making sure the intro sounds good and well thought out because right now it seems like it is choppy to me.

Contributions edit

Homework Week 1

05:53, 8 September 2011 (diff | hist) User:Nbarton10 ‎

05:52, 8 September 2011 (diff | hist) User:Nbarton10/sandbox ‎

05:49, 8 September 2011 (diff | hist) N User:Nbarton10/sandbox ‎ (←Created page with '{{User sandbox}} ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY class wikpedia project. By Nicole Barton')

05:47, 8 September 2011 (diff | hist) User:Tatompki/Introduction to Abnormal Psychology Wiki-Project ‎ (→Editors in PSYC 181)

05:43, 8 September 2011 (diff | hist) User:Nbarton10 ‎

05:43, 8 September 2011 (diff | hist) N User:Nbarton10 ‎ (←Created page with 'ABOUT ME Hey everyone! I am an athletic training major at Linfield College and am taking abnormal psychology as a requirement for my major. My interests inclu...')


Homework Week 2

07:10, 13 September 2011 (diff | hist) User talk:Tatompki ‎

07:05, 13 September 2011 (diff | hist) Polk County, Oregon ‎ (→Geography)

07:13, 12 September 2011 (diff | hist) N User talk:Tiffanybn ‎ (←Created page with 'Hey!
Part of this weeks assignment on blackboard is to post something on a classmates page so I thought I would post something on yours. That's about all I ha...')

06:59, 12 September 2011 (diff | hist) User:Nbarton10/sandbox ‎ (top)


Homework Week 3

14:59, 25 September 2011 (diff | hist) N User talk:Aspadoni206 ‎ (←Created page with 'Here is me linking to your page Nbarton10 (talk) 03:40, 6 December 2011 (UTC)')Reply

15:18, 25 September 2011 (diff | hist) User:Nbarton10 ‎ (→My group is interesting in discussing:)

15:18, 25 September 2011 (diff | hist) User:Nbarton10 ‎ (→ABOUT ME:)

15:17, 25 September 2011 (diff | hist) User:Nbarton10 ‎ (→ABOUT ME:)

20:45, 25 September 2011 (diff | hist) Cognitive psychology ‎ (i added a sentence about cognitive psychology being used in combination with behavioral psychology in therapy)

21:10, 25 September 2011 (diff | hist) User talk:Tiffanybn ‎

21:08, 25 September 2011 (diff | hist) User talk:Tatompki ‎ (→Week Four Assignment)

21:05, 25 September 2011 (diff | hist) Pica (disorder) ‎

21:04, 25 September 2011 (diff | hist) Pica (disorder) ‎ (i added a sentence about iron deficieny anemia also being a possible reprocution from pica)


Homework Week 4

06:18, 29 September 2011 (diff | hist) Talk:Pica (disorder) ‎

06:17, 29 September 2011 (diff | hist) User talk:Tatompki ‎ (→Week 5)

06:03, 29 September 2011 (diff | hist) Alogia ‎ (→Heading text)

06:03, 29 September 2011 (diff | hist) Alogia ‎

06:02, 29 September 2011 (diff | hist) Alogia ‎ (→Characteristics: talking about lack of spontaneous content in conversation)


Homework Week 5 07:22, 6 October 2011 (diff | hist) User:Nbarton10 ‎ (→My group) (top)

07:21, 6 October 2011 (diff | hist) User:Nbarton10 ‎ (→My group is interesting in discussing)


Homework Week 6

07:52, 13 October 2011 (diff | hist) Talk:Pica (disorder) ‎ (→Project Plan)

Entire Project Plan was done collaboratively and is on the Pica talk page


Homework Weeks 7-10

23:22, 4 November 2011 (diff | hist) Talk:Pica (disorder) ‎ (→Project Plan)

23:19, 4 November 2011 (diff | hist) Pica (disorder) ‎ (→History: adding information about the history of pica as found in selecct peer-reviewed journal articles)

23:04, 4 November 2011 (diff | hist) Pica (disorder) ‎ (→History)

06:11, 4 November 2011 (diff | hist) Pica (disorder) ‎ (→History)

06:09, 4 November 2011 (diff | hist) Pica (disorder) ‎ (→History)

06:03, 4 November 2011 (diff | hist) Pica (disorder) ‎

06:03, 4 November 2011 (diff | hist) Pica (disorder) ‎ (→History)

05:41, 4 November 2011 (diff | hist) Pica (disorder) ‎

05:22, 1 November 2011 (diff | hist) Talk:Pica (disorder) ‎


Continuing Work on Pica Article

02:26, 16 November 2011 (diff | hist) Talk:Pica (disorder) ‎ (→Rough Draft)

02:16, 16 November 2011 (diff | hist) Pica (disorder) ‎

02:15, 16 November 2011 (diff | hist) Pica (disorder) ‎

02:10, 16 November 2011 (diff | hist) Pica (disorder) ‎ (→History)

02:08, 16 November 2011 (diff | hist) Pica (disorder) ‎

04:16, 6 December 2011 (diff | hist) Pica (disorder) ‎ (→Diagnosis) (top)

03:59, 6 December 2011 (diff | hist) Pica (disorder) ‎ (→Treatment)

03:55, 6 December 2011 (diff | hist) Pica (disorder) ‎ (→Treatment)

04:22, 6 December 2011 (diff | hist) Pica (disorder) ‎ (→Epidemiology) (top)

Reflective Essay edit

In doing this wikipedia project I would say the first major challenge that I faced was in learning how to use the wikipedia website and become familiar with the terminology and how editing works. Once that was easier for me I felt like things began to run much smoother, although I was never able to becom ecompletely comfortable with how to use wikipedia correctly. As a group, I felt like we were able to delegate tasks that each person needed to do fairly easily so on a whole that part of the project was a success. Since our topic was more highly talked about than some peoples, gathering research was not a difficult part of the assignment. However, gathering journal articles that were related to the history of Pica (my section to write about) proved to me more difficult. What I seemed to find was people talking about the symptoms and less of how people discovered it to be a disorder. All in all, I would say I learned a lot about the eating disorder Pica, but in the end I feel like it would have been easier for me to write a research paper than have to use the wikipedia website.