Exercise 01 • Levels/Terms

Goals

1. Begin reading the literature about biological approaches to psychology with a critical, analytic perspective.
2. Highlight concepts and terms that you want to understand more thoroughly.
3. Apply the idea of levels of analysis to the relevant literature.

Tasks

1. Choose two (2) papers relevant to your personal research interests that you want to understand more thoroughly.
2. Scan the papers and highlight 3-5 terms or concepts that you are especially interested in understanding better.
3. Submit a short (1-2 pp) write-up that includes the following:
   • Which articles did you choose and why did you choose them.
   • What terms or concepts did you choose and why did you choose them.
   • What spatial level or levels of analysis do the terms or concepts reflect?
   • What time frame (temporal level of analysis) applies to the terms in question?
   • Do these concepts describe behaviors or internal states (physiological or psychological)?

Submission details

• Give your paper a file name following this convention: psy-511-spr-2025-LASTNAME-FIRSTNAME-ex01.docx,
• Provide full APA format citations with DOIs.
• Your write-up is due Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 11:59 pm.
• The Canvas dropbox is here