Task
In Week 8, you are expected to submit a single document that consists of five short-answer essays. Each of these should be no longer than 500 words. The work should be accompanied by a single reference list (excluded from word count). The five titles that you should use for your essays are:
- Memory decline is inevitable in older age. Discuss with relevance to two opposing theoretical standpoints.
- Stress can be adaptive as well as maladaptive. Discuss this with relevance to existing theories of psychological stress.
- ‘Internet addiction’ is not a ‘true’ addiction in the same way as alcohol or other substance addiction. Discuss with reference to current theories.
- ‘We need to heavily censor media for aggressive and violent content as a way of controlling aggression in adolescents’. Discuss this statement with reference to current literature.
- Critically discuss whether people are biologically predisposed to be biased thinkers.