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PSYC30019 ASSIGNMENT INFORMATION 2
21st July 2023
Development of the Thinking Child (PSYC30019)
Assignment Information
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
The University of Melbourne
PSYC30019 ASSIGNMENT INFORMATION 3
21st July 2023
Key Assignment Dates for PSYC30019 Semester 2 2023
Assessment Due before Word limit Assessment
Weight
Letter to a parent 8:00am – day of your lab class in
Week 5
1,500 34%
Lab report – Discussion
section
8:00am – day of your lab class in
Week 9
1,000 33%
Neuropsychological report 8:00am – day of your lab class in
Week 12
1,500 33%
PSYC30019 ASSIGNMENT INFORMATION 4
21st July 2023
Assignment One – Letter to a parent
A parent with a child with ADHD asks your opinion about a specific intervention (choose from
exercise or animal therapy) to help their child. Your task is to write a 1,500-word helpful and
empathic letter to the parent outlining your professional opinion about this intervention for
children with ADHD, citing scientific evidence.
Please include a reference list of the scientific evidence you cite in the letter, using APA 7th
format. Include at least six journal articles to support your argument in the letter.
Your letter should be submitted in Week 5 of semester, on the day of your lab class, before 8am.
This part of the assessment is worth 34% of your semester mark for this subject.
Here are some indicative articles on these interventions:
Exercise (Neudecker, Mewes, Reimers, & Woll, 2019)
Animal therapy (Schuck, Emmerson, Fine, & Lakes, 2015)
Your learning objectives:
to understand ADHD and the intervention
to find appropriate scientific literature on the intervention
to analyze the scientific literature on the intervention
to evaluate the scientific literature on the intervention
to produce a logical argument
to create a letter that is clearly written
There is an “Assignment One” Forum on the Discussion Board where you should put all
questions which will be addressed in the Q&A session for this assignment (apart from personal
concerns, which should be emailed to the head tutor).
Marking criteria for Assignment One
Marking rubric Conceptual