User:AlramirezPsyc/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Death anxiety (psychology)


 * Article Evaluation
 * I believe the article's content is relevant to the topic of anxiety and holds a somewhat neutral tone. Although each claim made has its own citation, I believe the claim isn't as elaborated as it should be. The claims seem to be a tad bit short for my taste. Not entirely sure if I would enjoy having to click on different links in order to get a better elaboration of the claim that was made. The citations do look reliable but a majority of them don't seem to be current/within the past 10 years.


 * Sources
 * Langs, Robert (2004). "Death Anxiety and the Emotion-Processing Mind". Psychoanalytic Psychology. 21 (1): 31–53. doi:10.1037/0736-9735.21.1.31.
 * Sterling, Christopher M. (December 1985). Identity and Death Anxiety (M.A. thesis). Mount Pleasant, MI: Department of Psychology, Central Michigan University. pp. 10–11. OCLC 13818865. ProQuest 220097024
 * Slaughter, Virginia; Griffiths, Maya (October 2007). "Death Understanding and Fear of Death in Young Children". Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 12 (4): 525–535. doi:10.1177/1359104507080980. PMID 18095535. S2CID 19709740.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Stranger anxiety


 * Article Evaluation
 * I believe the article's content is relevant to the topic of anxiety, specifically a form of anxiety found in children. The article does not seem to have a biased tone nor does it lack in clarification for the different subtopics that are associated with stranger anxiety. The claims found in this article are very descriptive and do a well of enough job explaining the idea behind each concept. My only complaint would be the lack of citations along with the scarce amount of recent sources (newest article coming from the year 2013).
 * Sources
 * Greenberg, David (1973). "Infant and Stranger Variables Related to Stranger Anxiety in the First Year of Life". Developmental Psychology. 9 (2): 207–212. doi:10.1037/h0035084.
 * Brooker, R. J., Buss, K. A., Lemery-Chalfant, K., Aksan, N., Davidson, R. J., & Goldsmith, H. H. (2013). (2013). "The Development of Stranger Fear in Infancy and Toddlerhood: Normative Development, Individual Differences, Antecedents, and Outcomes". Developmental Science. 16 (6): 864–78. doi:10.1111/desc.12058. PMC 4129944. PMID 24118713.
 * Dunne, Güler; Askew, Chris (2013). "Vicarious learning and unlearning of fear in childhood via mother and stranger models". Emotion. 13 (5): 974–980. doi:10.1037/a0032994. PMID 23795591.
 * Albus, Kathleen E.; Dozier, Mary (1999). "Indiscriminate friendliness and terror of strangers in infancy: Contributions from the study of infants in foster care". Infant Mental Health Journal. 20: 30–41. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0355(199921)20:1<30::AID-IMHJ3>3.0.CO;2-J.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Test anxiety


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article's content relates to the topic of anxiey and holds an unbiased tone to it. Overall, all claims that are made are very extensive, elaborative, and backed by reliable sources. Looking at the sources used, they vary in age (oldest coming from the year 1952, newest coming from the year 2018) and come from various institutes/sources.


 * Sources
 * The original research and development of the TAQ (Test Anxiety Questionnaire) was conducted by: Mandler, G.; Sarason, S. B. (1952). "A study of anxiety and learning". Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. 47 (2): 166–173. doi:10.1037/h0062855. PMID 14937950.
 * MD, Uma Naidoo (2018-03-14). "Eating well to help manage anxiety: Your questions answered - Harvard Health Blog". Harvard Health Blog. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
 * Wine, J (1971). "Test anxiety and direction of attention". Psychological Bulletin. 76 (2): 92–104. doi:10.1037/h0031332. PMID 4937878. S2CID 3826188
 * Putwain, D.W., Woods, K.A., Symes, W. (2010). Personal and situational predictors of test anxiety of students in post-compulsory education. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 80, 137-160

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Foreign language anxiety


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article seems to need a lot of work. Although this article is labeled as "high importance", it doesn't seem to have much recent work done on it. It is a fairly short article but what is discussed is done with very close detail and with reliable sources. Every claim seems to be followed with a proper, reliable citation.


 * Sources
 * Molinsky, Andrew (2007-01-01). "Cross-Cultural Code-Switching: The Psychological Challenges of Adapting Behavior in Foreign Cultural Interactions". The Academy of Management Review. 32 (2): 622–640. doi:10.2307/20159318. JSTOR 20159318.
 * Pappamihiel, N. Eleni (1 January 2002). "English as a Second Language Students and English Language Anxiety: Issues in the Mainstream Classroom". Research in the Teaching of English. 36 (3): 327–355. JSTOR 40171530.
 * MacIntyre, P. D.; Gardner, R. C. (1994). "The subtle effects of language anxiety on cognitive processing in the second language". Language Learning. 44 (2): 283–305. doi:10.1111/j.1467-1770.1994.tb01103.x.
 * Horwirz, E. K.; Horwitz, M. B.; Cope, J. (1986). "Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety". The Modern Language Journal. 70 (ii): 125–132. doi:10.2307/327317. JSTOR 327317.

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