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Due in Week 5 and worth 230 points.

In the Strayer Library, go to the EBSCO-Host Academic database. Find a
recent research article from a scholarly journal in the field of
psychology. It must have been published less than twelve (12) years ago.
Be sure to select an article for which the full-text is available. This
will be your “target article”. Actual journals for which full-text is
available include Advances in Cognitive Psychology, British Journal
of Social Psychology, Journal of Positive Psychology, Issues in Forensic
Psychology, Journal of Psychology, among many others. In some
cases, publishers do not make the full-text available on EBSCO-Host for
twelve (12) months after publication. Note: Do not use
newspaper or magazine articles or Websites such as Wikipedia to complete
this assignment. Read Strayer University’s guidelines against
plagiarism.

Your selected article must meet all of the stated criteria or your assignment will not be accepted. Before proceeding, please ensure that your selected article meets the following criteria:

• Full-text is available in EBSCO-Host database.
• Is a scholarly journal article in the field of psychology.
• Was published less than 12 years ago.

Read key sections of the chosen article in order to derive its
general gist. Begin by reading the Abstract of the article.
Subsequently, read the Introduction and the Discussion sections. Search
through the paper for any figures or tables. Be sure to read as much of
the paper as is practical in order to digest as much as you are able.

Write a paper of 450-600 words (1.5 to 2 pages) in which you:

1. Identify your selected article, using a proper APA-style in-text
   citation that corresponds to an entry in the reference section, as
   explained below under “How to properly cite your article”.
2. Describe what type of article it is and how you are able to discern
   its type. For example, is it primarily a review of existing research, a
   report of new research, or an analysis of a professional issue? If it is
   a research article, identify the type of research involved.
3. Summarize, in a paragraph or two (2), what you have learned about
   the content of the article. Include the main purpose of the article, the
   major findings, and how the major findings are supported.
4. Explain the manner in which your selected article fits into the
   overall field of psychology. Next, identify the corresponding chapter(s)
   from your textbook, using a proper APA-style in-text citation to your
   text.
5. Explain the fundamental reasons why this article is different from
   and similar to articles in non-scholarly periodicals, such as magazines
   and newspapers.

How to properly cite your article

In APA format, we put the full listing of each source in a
“reference” list at the end of the document. In the body of the text, we
use what are called in-text citations. Here is an example of an in-text
citation:

The article I selected is one about well-being in senior citizens who are housebound (Houston, McKee & Wilson, 2000).

For the purposes of this assignment, you only need to put one (1)
in-text citation to your target article and one (1) in-text citation to
the textbook. However, you may cite either of these sources as many
times as needed. For instance, you must always give an in-text citation
with a quote. Here is an example.