User:Nancyrm127/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
 * Eyewitness testimony


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article's content is related to human cognition because it relates to memory and how our memory can make for a reliable or unreliable eyewitness testimony. While I found that the claims made throughout the article were supported by reliable academic sources,  the article does lean slightly more towards the negative side of eyewitness testimony.  It might be beneficial to include some of the history surrounding the topic such as including cases were it played a key role in the final verdict.  In that history section it should include positive outcomes but also some of the negative ones.  While eyewitness testimonies don't hold the same power they once did it is still important to note the power they had and how that power has been used before to wrongly accuse those from minority communities.  How our brains may alter our memories after the event is touched upon in the article and it may be a good idea to mention how social media may play a role.


 * Sources
 * Schaefer, Halldorson, M. K., & Dizon-Reynante, C. (2011). TV or not TV? Does the immediacy of viewing images of a momentous news event affect the quality and stability of flashbulb memories? Memory (Hove), 19(3), 251–266. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2011.558512

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Distracted driving


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is related to the topic of attention which we cover in class. It appears to have reliable sources with the statistics coming from government reports and other claims being research based.  It has a neutral tone with it being very fact based and not opinion based.  It includes statistics about the different types of distracted driving but I think it would be helpful to included why each type affects our ability to drive differently.


 * Sources
 * Pope, Bell, T. R., & Stavrinos, D. (2017). Mechanisms behind distracted driving behavior: The role of age and executive function in the engagement of distracted driving. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 98, 123–129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2016.09.030

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Study skills


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is related to the topics we have covered in this course such as memory and how sleep affects our ability to memorize. The article has a mixture of claims that are backed by reliable research based sources and claims that are backed by unreliable sources.  While some of those claims may be true in reality the sources given are not good enough.  The article doesn't give off the tone of an encyclopedia it feels more like a self help book partially because of the unsupported claims.  That is an issue that someone pointed out in the "Talk" page a while ago.  Some changes have been made since but the issue is still there.


 * Sources
 * Gillen-O’Neel, Huynh, V. W., & Fuligni, A. J. (2013). To Study or to Sleep? The Academic Costs of Extra Studying at the Expense of Sleep. Child Development, 84(1), 133–142. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01834.x

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Spot the difference


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article does relate to the class because the puzzle it talks about uses change detection. Overall it is a poor article it has no sources and is very short.  Under "solving techniques" section it appears to be opinion based.  After looking at the "talk" page it appears that the editor included looking at the images while crossed eyed as a technique because it is what he does.  The article needs sources along with an explanation on how we are able to solve it.


 * Sources
 * Jassim, Owen, A. M., Smith, P., Suckling, J., Lawson, R. P., Baron-Cohen, S., & Parsons, O. (2022). Perceptual decision-making in autism as assessed by “spot the difference” visual cognition tasks. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 15458–15458. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19640-4

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Jigsaw puzzle


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article does relate to cognition because it can help explain how we solve them. It appears to be a good neutral article.  The sources listed appear to be decent due to the nature of the topic.  However if the information on how we use cognition to solve jigsaw puzzles it would need more sources that are research based.


 * Sources
 * Fissler, Küster, O. C., Loy, L. S., Laptinskaya, D., Rosenfelder, M. J., von Arnim, C. A. F., & Kolassa, I.-T. (2017). Jigsaw Puzzles As Cognitive Enrichment (PACE) - the effect of solving jigsaw puzzles on global visuospatial cognition in adults 50 years of age and older: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials, 18(1), 415–415. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-017-2151-9