PSY 108 Project One Milestone Guidelines and Rubric
Overview
You are a member of SNHU’s champion debate club. You have had a successful season and are well on your way to the College Debate Bowl championship. Your team’s objective for this event will be to prepare a defense for a position on the following topic: Which impacts human behavior more: nature or nurture?
In the weeks before the debate, each member of the team is assigned a specific behavior or response and you were assigned to focus on stress. This will help the team argue its side, as well as counter the opposing viewpoint. Because you don’t yet know which side you will be on, your goal is to give as much objective information as possible.
Prompt
You will use your webtext to complete the milestone.
For your graphic organizer, you must address the rubric criteria listed below:
- Summarize your opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the neuroscience perspective of psychology. Your response should be a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences.
- Summarize your opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the evolutionary perspective of psychology. Your response should be a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences.
- Summarize your opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the behavior genetics perspective of psychology. Your response should be a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences.
- Summarize your opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the psychodynamic perspective of psychology. Your response should be a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences.
- Summarize your opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the behavioral perspective of psychology. Your response should be a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences.
- Summarize your opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the cognitive perspective of psychology. Your response should be a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences.
- Summarize your opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the social-cultural perspective of psychology. Your response should be a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences.
What to Submit
You will use your Soomo webtext writing template to complete the milestone and download your completed graphic organizer. Sources should be cited according to APA style.
Project One Milestone Rubric
| Criteria | Exemplary (100%) | Proficient (85%) | Needs Improvement (55%) | Not Evident (0%) | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neuroscience Perspective | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Summarizes opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the neuroscience perspective of psychology with a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include details on why nature or nurture is more significant for the neuroscience perspective | Does not attempt criterion | 13 |
| Evolutionary Perspective | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Summarizes opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the evolutionary perspective of psychology with a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include details on why nature or nurture is more significant for the evolutionary perspective | Does not attempt criterion | 13 |
| Behavior Genetics Perspective | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Summarizes opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the behavior genetics perspective of psychology with a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include details on why nature or nurture is more significant for the behavior genetics perspective | Does not attempt criterion | 13 |
| Psychodynamic Perspective | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Summarizes opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the psychodynamic perspective of psychology with a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include details on why nature or nurture is more significant for the psychodynamic perspective | Does not attempt criterion | 13 |
| Behavioral Perspective | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Summarizes opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the behavioral perspective of psychology with a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include details on why nature or nurture is more significant for the behavioral perspective | Does not attempt criterion | 13 |
| Cognitive Perspective | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Summarizes opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the cognitive perspective of psychology with a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include details on why nature or nurture is more significant for the cognitive perspective | Does not attempt criterion | 13 |
| Social-Cultural Perspective | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Summarizes opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the social-cultural perspective of psychology with a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include details on why nature or nurture is more significant for the social-cultural perspective | Does not attempt criterion | 13 |
| Articulation of Response | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Clearly conveys meaning with correct grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, demonstrating an understanding of audience and purpose | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, negatively impacting readability | Submission has critical errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, preventing understanding of ideas |