Self-Regulation of Learning

Use published human and animal research and behaviorist, social cognitive, information processing and constructivist theory to develop an outline of a research proposal to measure self-regulation in one of the following fields:

• Environmental or evolutionary psychology
• Forensic psychology
• Health or sports psychology
• Industrial/organizational or engineering psychology

Select and complete one of the following assignments:

Self-Regulation Presentation

Prepare a 10-minute Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentation with speaker notes of a research proposal as as if your audience were members of a foundation grant screening committee. The purpose of the presentation is to let the grant screening committee know about an idea you have of research for measuring self-regulation in one of the above fields.

Address the following in your presentation:

• Write a description of how you are proposing to measure self-regulation
• Discuss the operational definitions, limitations, assumptions, hypotheses, and data analysis plans of your research
• Discuss the deficiencies a critic might identify in your statement of limitations and assumptions