AWA: Academic Writing at Auckland

Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using human laboratory experiments, animal experiments, and surveys to test health psychology theories.

Introduction: Description of relevant attachment dimension and associated thoughts, feelings and behaviour. Description of why conflict/stress is important attachment-relevant situation for people high in anxiety-ambival ...

Discuss why cerebral asymmetries may have arisen and outline the structural and functional neural substrates that may support asymmetry

Propose research which identifies how women cope with a spontaneous abortion, what methods are effective, and what needs to be improved or changed to help future women cope.

Evolutionary Psychology is wrong in almost every detail. The problem isn't that it rests on 'one big mistake,' but that it makes little mistakes nearly every theoretical and empirical turn." (Buller, 2006)
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Using the provided data set, identify a single question that can be asked of the data collected. The question should take the form "Is 'Personality Trait' related to Y?" or "Do these two groups differ in 'Per ...

Proposal for a study investigating the effect of background music on memory in musicians and non-musicians.

He Ara Oranga - Report of the Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction (2018) notes an over-reliance on medication in treating people with mental health problems in Aotearoa/New Zealand, and is critical of the ...

"Being gay is innate. Critically evaluate this claim."

"Being gay is innate. Critically evaluate this claim."

Using the provided data set, identify a single question that can be asked of the data collected. The question should take the form "Is 'Personality Trait' related to Y?" or "Do these two groups differ in 'Personality Tra ...

Study proposal to investigate whether social learning in New Caledonian crows is essential for acquiring the ability to produce the most advanced of the tools made by the crows, the Pandanus stepped designed tool.

Whether personality is determined by biological or environmental factors - main arguments for each side and their implications.

Properties of the primate visual system and their equivalents in other sensory and motor systems

Aspects of psychoanalytic theory that can explain perfectionism.

Replicating and extending existing study concerning pigeon behaviour.

Proposal for a study investigating the relationship between internet use and social anxiety.

Compare and contrast the standard consolidation and multiple trace theories regarding the role of the hippocampus in remote memory. Critically discuss this question referring to relevant research, with a focus on neurops ...

Growing Up in NZ: Choose ONE finding & subsection that is interesting to you. 1) Summarize the finding; 2) Use at least 6 recent research articles (i.e., within the past 10 years) to make informed predictions about the i ...