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Group 16, Please note:
I did a quick search on Google Scholar and came up with tons of articles by Susan Gelman. A regular Google search also turns up lots of hits on Gelman. She has a website at University of Michigan and contact information.
 * It may be challenging to find information on her, but you need to put some work into it. Be creative and resourceful. J.R. Council (talk) 19:42, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Susan Gelman: Assignment 4: Matt Songle
The first problem I see is the overall lack of information about Susan Gelman, the inclusion of references and where the information present has come from.

Additional References:

Additional Questions for Dr. Council,

I've noticed while doing some brief research on Susan Gelman that she seems to be a rather large supporter of essentialism, I was wondering if id be a good idea to expand on that within the wikipedia article?
 * I'm not sure what essentialism is, but if she's known for this, then you should cover this in her article. J.R. Council (talk) 19:42, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

As far as changes to the article go, I know there is a large amount of work to be completed, I am wondering what aspects you would like to see as we move forward on expanding the article on Susan Gelman.
 * Please read the brochure on Editing Wikipedia articles on psychology. It has a section on how to organize an article on a psychologist. Topics include background, education, research program, major works, and legacy. J.R. Council (talk) 19:42, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

MSongle (talk) 21:50, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Assignment 4: Joe Zytkovicz
I also noticed that Susan Geman's stub article is very lacking in information and it is terrible that there are absolutely no references cited that show where the alleged information comes from. It would also be nice if the article had a more clear structure and if there was an image of Susan herself.

Additional References:

http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=c7f76972-c80c-441d-ba25-81b889e247fc%40sessionmgr4008&vid=35&hid=4107Alhaji.Bah 04:28, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=2&sid=0d7af8d4-eea6-4ac9-8285-08ff44a3716e%40sessionmgr4006&hid=4107&Alhaji.Bah 04:28, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Additional Questions for Dr. Council,

I was wondering if you would like us to research and report on her experiences before she became a professional in the field of psychology.
 * If you can find relevant information, please include it.J.R. Council (talk) 19:42, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

How many sources do you consider to be an adequate amount in order to ensure the validity of the wikipedia page?
 * I just posted an announcement about this on Blackboard. Be sure to read it. Bottom line is that you write the best article you can given the amount of information available. J.R. Council (talk) 19:42, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Joseph Zytkovicz (talk) 01:22, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Assignment 4: Alhaji Bah
I will also be checking on some additional information that are relevant about her and add it on along what each one of you are doing. I will add what inspires her to pursue this area of psychology. Along this, I will add the relevant of some of her findings and what can be done to improve her findings. I will also add some articles that uses her studies and where she had contributed. Alhaji.Bah 04:20, 15 October 2016 (UTC)  Example.jpg|Caption1 == Here I was trying to upload her picture, but it didn't allow me to. Alhaji.Bah 06:50, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

To Do List:

 * Add a photograph of Susan Gelman
 * Add references and citations

Joseph Zytkovicz (talk) 19:07, 14 October 2016 (UTC) MSongle (talk) 02:00, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Create new subsections within the wikipedia page, some of these could be, but are not limited to:
 * Separating the existing education and awards section into their own sections
 * Personal life section
 * Professional life section
 * How she got into working on/with children
 * Expanding on her specific topics of research, such as:
 * Cognitive development
 * Language acquisition
 * categorization
 * inductive and casual reasoning
 * Expand on her work with essentialism
 * Expand on her membership to various psychological societies

The smaller and italicized portions are the current state of Susan Gelman's Wikipedia page.


'' Susan A. Gelman (born July 24, 1957) is a Heinz Werner Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the topics of cognitive development, language acquisition, categorization, inductive reasoning, causal reasoning, and relationships between language and thought. Gelman subscribes to the domain specificity view of cognition, asserting that the mind is composed of specialized modules subserving specific cognitive functions. ''

'' Gelman was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2008 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2012. She was also formerly President of the Cognitive Development Society (2005-2007). ''

'' Her brother is the statistician Andrew Gelman at Columbia University. ''

Education and awards
''Gelman received a B.A. in psychology and classical Greek from Oberlin College in 1980 and a Ph.D. in psychology with a minor in linguistics from Stanford University (advisor: Ellen Markman) in 1984, since which time she has been employed at University of Michigan. Her research has been recognized by numerous awards including a J. S. Guggenheim Fellowship (1996), the James McKeen Cattell Fund Fellowship (2007-2008), the Distinguished Scientific Award from the American Psychological Association for Early Career Contribution to Psychology (1991), the American Psychological Foundation Robert L. Fantz Award (1992), the Eleanor Maccoby Book Prize from Division 7 of the American Psychological Association (2005) for The Essential Child, the Developmental Psychology Mentor Award, Division 7, American Psychological Association (2012), and the G. Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Psychology, Division 7, American Psychological Association (2016).''

 she won awards in the US and Canada 

I will be adding some of the known awards she won and where she won them and the relevant of those awards. I will also be adding the places she has traveled to and the part of the world where she is more influential. Alhaji.Bah 04:09, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Representative publications

 *  Gelman, S. A., Taylor, M G., and Nguyen, S. (2004). Mother-child conversations about gender: Understanding the acquisition of essentialist beliefs. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. Volume 69, No. 1. 
 *  Gelman, S. A. (2003). The essential child: Origins of essentialism in everyday thought. New York: Oxford University Press. 
 *  Gelman, S. A., and Bloom, P. (2000). Young children are sensitive to how an object was created when deciding what to name it. Cognition, 76, 91-103. 
 *  Gelman, S. A. (2000). The role of essentialism in children's concepts. In H. W. Reese (Ed.), Advances in child development and behavior, Vol. 27 (pp. 55–98). San Diego: Academic Press. 
 *  Gelman, S. A., and Heyman, G. D. (1999). Carrot-eaters and creature-believers: The effects of lexicalization on children's inferences about social categories. Psychological Science, 10, 489-493. 
 *  Gelman, Susan A. (1988/01)."The development of induction within natural kind and artifact categories." Cognitive Psychology 20(1): 65-95Alhaji.Bah 00:54, 26 October 2016 (UTC) 
 *  Gelman, S.A., and Wellman. H.M.. 1991. Insides and essences: Early understandings of the non-obvious. Cognition, 38: 213-244. Alhaji.Bah 00:54, 26 October 2016 (UTC) 

Alhaji.Bah 00:44, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

 External links  === Joseph Zytkovicz (talk) 19:17, 14 October 2016 (UTC) As far as splitting up the remainder of the project, I will work on updating and expanding on her current information, such as her research areas including essentialism, language acquisition, and cognitive development. I will also take on adding information about her personal life, such as family, hobbies, and thing along that nature. I also plan on adding some information on how or why she chose to work with children. MSongle (talk) 02:00, 15 October 2016 (UTC)  Joe is going to be focusing on adding additional information on Susan Gelman's early life, her profession life (such as previous work experience, and finally he will add relevant information in inductive and causal reasoning and categorization. Between the two of us, we will be altering the overall image of the page by adding relevant design features.  MSongle (talk) 03:26, 15 October 2016 (UTC)   Alhaji Bah  since Joe will be updating and expanding and matt will be adding more information. I am going add more on to the headings of each ones topics. I have some more articles and i will be adding and you guys should feel free to expand the information that I will be adding. I will be focusing also on the areas we are lacking in and just update those.Alhaji.Bah 01:06, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
 *  Biography 
 *  Susan Gelman's CV 
 *  The Conceptual Development Lab at University of Michigan 
 *    ==== References ====''

Dr. Council's comments on Assignment 5

 * Your to-do list looka good. However, I can't see that you've added much to the outline at all. You will need to do better than this to make a significant contribution to the article. Why doesn't your outline reflect the to-do list?
 * It was difficult for me to tell who contributed what. I will make my best guess in grading unless you clarify. J.R. Council (talk) 02:31, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Assignment 6: Lead Section - Joseph Zytkovicz
Susan A. Gelman (born July 24, 1957) is currently a Professor of Psychology and Linguistics and the director of The Conceptual Development Lab at the University of Michigan.

She conducts research on children that are 2 to 10 years of age focusing on; cognitive development, language acquisition, categorization, inductive reasoning, causal reasoning, and the relationship between language and thought.

Gelman subscribes to the domain specificity view of cognition, asserting that the mind is composed of specialized modules subserving specific cognitive functions.

Gelman was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2008 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2012. She was also formerly President of the Cognitive Development Society (2005-2007).

Assignment 6: Lead Section - Matt Songle
Susan A. Gelman (born July 24, 1957) is currently a Professor of Psychology and Linguistics and the director of The Conceptual Development Lab at the University of Michigan. She conducts research on children that are 2 to 10 years of age focusing on; cognitive development, language acquisition, categorization, inductive reasoning, causal reasoning, and the relationship between language and thought. Gelman is an influential contributor to Essentialism within psychology having published several works concerning the topic. Gelman subscribes to the domain specificity view of cognition, asserting that the mind is composed of specialized modules subserving specific cognitive functions. Gelman was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2008 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2012. She was also formerly President of the Cognitive Development Society (2005-2007). In recognition of her many contributions to the field of psychology she has received several prestigious awards including the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology, the Developmental Psychology Mentor Award of the American Psychological Association,and the American Psychological Association 2016 G. Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Psychology (Division 7).

I liked what Joe had established as a lead section so I used his information and added a bit that I felt would be relevant in establishing Susan Gelman in one paragraph. I feel as though we still have a ways to go, but we have established a solid base on which to move forward. MSongle (talk) 21:48, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Assignment 6: lead section - Alhaji
Susan A. Gelman was born on July 24, 1957. She is a Psychology professor and a researcher. Some of the researches she had conducted are in cognitive development, casual reasoning and language development and many more.Alhaji.Bah 23:03, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Educational backgroud She attended Stanford University (1980 to 1984) and Oberlin College (2984). She obtained a doctorate degree and now she is a laboratory director at the University of Michigan.

By doing her research, she had won multiple awards in the nation and in Canada. Alhaji.Bah 23:20, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Am kind of confuse a little. is each one of us doing a separate research and write about each topic or we are all supposed to do the same topic? Because if we are all doing the same sections for each assignment, pre-much of the presentation will be the same. Alhaji.Bah 23:26, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Matt made a good move in starting the lead section. That was a clear example of the formatting style and information that seems to be relevant about her. Joe also extended on Matt's point and clarifies some information that seem necessary or relevant about Susan Gelman Now the assignment make lot more sense from being in class today, as Dr. James say we would then combine what we all have into one lead section. Now you two can take a peak on what I(Alhaji) have added, if you guys are missing it from you draft and then you can clarify it and add more to it.Alhaji.Bah 00:35, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Dr. Council's comments on Assignment 6
I think you all have done a nice job on the leads, except Alhaji was confused. Glad he understands now. He should also work on a smoother paragraph style. I think that you'll be able to put these together into a nice lead for Assignment 7. Good work on the establishing notability at the top of the lead, and then filling in significant background. J.R. Council (talk) 02:36, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Good comments on each other's work. J.R. Council (talk) 02:38, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Assignment 7: Combined lead Section
Susan A. Gelman (Born July 24, 1957) is currently a professor of psychology and linguistics and the director of the conceptual laboratory at the University of Michigan]. She conducts research on children from the age 2 to 10 years; these studies mainly focus on these areas, cognitive development, language acquisition, categorization, inductive reasoning, causal reasoning, and the relationship between language and thought.Alhaji.Bah 11:48, 5 November 2016 (UTC)Gelman did not only focus on research, rather, she also subscribes to the domain specificity view of cognition. This view asserts that the mind is composed of specialized modules supervising specific functions in the human and other animals. She became an influential contributor to Essentialism within the domain of psychology, in addition to her having published several work in this topic.Alhaji.Bah 22:25, 7 November 2016 (UTC) Gelman was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2008 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2012. She was also formerly President of the Cognitive Development Society (2005-2007). In recognition of her many contributions to the field of psychology she has received several prestigious awards including the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology, the Developmental Psychology Mentor Award of the American Psychological Association,and the American Psychological Association 2016 G. Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Psychology (Division 7). MSongle (talk) 22:49, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Dr. Council's comments on combined leads

 * 1) Proofread! Proofread! Lots of misspellings, clumsy wording, grammatical errors.
 * 2) Add references to back up your statements. Use proper Wikipedia reference format.
 * 3) Put date of birth in bold.
 * 4) Use Gelman, not Susan (don't refer to her by her first name).
 * 5) This sentence doesn't make sense. Isn't it a research topic? "Susan did not only focus on research, rather, she also subscribes to the domain specificity view of cognition."

When you take care of this, let me know and proceed to developing the main article for section 8. J.R. Council (talk) 03:26, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Please note: Joe has not signed anywhere, so I can't tell if he did anything. I need to know his contribution to give him credit.J.R. Council (talk) 03:29, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Dr. Council, I sent you an email concerning Joe's involvement with this assignment a few days ago. He was experiencing a couple technical problems with his computer and account so we worked together on completing the assignment. As addressed in the email, please take our contributions to the assignment as a group effort even though only my name is listed. We should have mentioned something within the assignment but it was overlooked, we apologize for any confusion this may have caused. Thank you for understandingMSongle (talk) 17:53, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Assignment 8: Main Article
 Education 

She received her B.A., Psychology and Classical Greek from Oberlin College in 1980, and her Ph.D. in Psychology, with a Ph.D. minor in Linguistics from Stanford University in 1984. Joseph Zytkovicz (talk) 22:27, 23 November 2016 (UTC) She studies concepts and language in young children. She is the author of over 200 publications in psychology research or related articles. Alhaji.Bah 01:39, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

 Research Areas and Topics of Interest 


 * Developmental psychology
 * Cognitive development
 * Language acquisition
 * Categorization and Inductive reasoning
 * Psychological essentialism
 * Social categories; Ownership, Authenticity, and Object history
 * Parent-child conversations
 * Semantic development
 * Causal reasoning
 * Relations between language and thought
 * Social categories; Ownership, Authenticity, and Object history
 * Parent-child conversations
 * Semantic development
 * Causal reasoning
 * Relations between language and thought
 * Causal reasoning
 * Relations between language and thought
 * Relations between language and thought
 * Relations between language and thought

 Essentialism 

Gelman has been a major contributor to essentialism and relating essentialist ideas to varying aspects within the field of psychology. A large number of her publications and contributions have associated essentialism and involved how its ideas can provide further insight into the field of psychology. Gelman's work within the two fields share a familiar subsection which focuses on the developmental aspect of children. Her work has established that children, within a given age range, are able to detect underlying essences or root causes for predicting observed behaviors. MSongle (talk) 02:21, 23 November 2016 (UTC)Gelman's role in the furthering of psychological knowledge in regards to child development has given insight into how children acquire language and the though processing that goes into such acquisitions can be exemplified through her contributions to published works. Her dedication to furthering the understanding of childhood cognitive development. MSongle (talk) 01:18, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

 The Conceptual Development Lab 

The Conceptual Development Lab is directed by Gelman and is located in the Psychology Department at the University of Michigan. Most of the studies conducted at the lab focus on children between the ages of 2 and 10, and are carried out in a home-like laboratory setting or in local preschools and middle schools.

 Awards 

J. S. Guggenheim Fellowship (1996), the James Mckeen Cattell Fund Fellowship (2007-2008), the Eleanor Maccoby Book prize from Division 7 at the American Psychological Association (2005) for The Essential Child publication ,the Distinguished Scientific Award from the American Psychological Association for Early career Contribution to Psychology(1991), the American Psychological Foundation Robert L. Fantz Award in (1992), the Developmental Psychology Mentor Award, Division 7, American Psychological Association (2012) and the G. Stanly Hall Award for Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Psychology, Division 7, American Psychological Association (2016).Alhaji.Bah 01:52, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Joseph Zytkovicz (talk) 04:40, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

 References 

Dr. Council's comments on your main article
This looks very good and is essentially ready to publish. However, I don't see where you've revised your combined lead based on my feedback. Please do this! As it stands, the combined lead is much too long. Cut it down, move non-essential material to main article. I am sending the link to Ian for his comments. J.R. Council (talk) 19:08, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
 * One specific comment - having a picture is nice, but make sure that the pic is okay to use. See material on Illustrating Wikipedia that I've included in Wikipedia resources (see Bb menu). If you use the picture, put it in an info box. Type help:infobox into Wikipedia search box to find out how.

Response to comments
It's awesome to hear that our article is ready to publish, I will go over the lead section and refine it. The image of Susan Gelman should be safe to use because I emailed her asking for her to send an image and for her permission to use it. Joseph Zytkovicz (talk) 00:55, 10 December 2016 (UTC) I think we have covered the main concerns Dr.Council had with our article. I did not see anything that needed to be changed beyond what has already been done and I look forward to seeing our work finalized on the main page for Susan Gelman MSongle (talk) 01:24, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

I did go over the article as well and did some more editings. I proofread it and fix the grammatical errors I made, some that were pointed to me and others I noticed as I was reading. You are right Mat, I think it worth seeing this article as the main page of Wikipedia on Susan. From this, others will hopefully add more about her. However, we have started the main page(talk) Alhaji.Bah 21:42, 12 December 2016 (UTC)