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undefined. The student has summarized material from a document titled “Inside the Brain: An Interactive Tour” on the Alzheimer’s Association Web site. The copyright date for the article is 2008, and there is no named author. The URL is http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_4719.asp.
◯ Inside the brain: An interactive tour. (2008). Retrieved from Alzheimer’s Association website: http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_4719.asp
◯ Alzheimer’s Association. (2008). Inside the brain: An interactive tour. Retrieved from http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_4719.asp
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undefined. The student has quoted from a documentary DVD titled The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer’s, dated 2004. Elizabeth Arledge is listed as the producer and director, and Warner Home Video, in Burbank, California, is the distributor.
◯ Arledge, E., Producer/director. (2004). The forgetting: A portrait of Alzheimer’s [DVD]. Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video.
◯ Arledge, E. (Producer/director). (2004). The forgetting: A portrait of Alzheimer’s [DVD]. Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video.
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undefined. The student has paraphrased an article by Joseph Nocera, “Taking Science Personally,” found on page F1 in The New York Times, November 11, 2008.
◯ Nocera, J. (2008, November 11). Taking science personally. The New York Times, p. F1.
◯ Nocera, J. (2008, November 11). Taking science personally. The New York Times, F1.
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undefined. The student has quoted material from page 320 of an article in volume 43, issue 3, of the British Journal of Clinical Psychology. The article, “Life Events, Depression, and Social Support in Dementia,” was published in September 2004 and is printed on pages 313-324. The journal is paginated continuously throughout the volume. The authors are Allyson Waite, Paul Bebbington, Martin Skelton-Robinson, and Martin Orrell.
◯ Waite, A., Bebbington, P., Skelton-Robinson, M., and Orrell, M. (2004). Life events, depression, and social support in dementia. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 43, 313-324.
◯ Waite, A., Bebbington, P., Skelton-Robinson, M., and Orrell, M. (2004). Life events, depression, and social support in dementia. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 43, 320.
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undefined. The student has summarized information from the book Aging, Biotechnology, and the Future, edited by Catherine Y. Read, Robert C. Green, and Michael A. Smyer. The book was published in Baltimore, Maryland, in 2008 by Johns Hopkins University Press.
◯ Read, C. Y., Green, R. C., and Smyer, M. A. (Eds.). (2008). Aging, biotechnology, and the future. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
◯ Read, C. Y., Green, R. C., and Smyer, M. A. (2008). Aging, biotechnology, and the future. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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undefined. The student has quoted material from an article, “Behavioral Medicine and Aging,” in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, accessed in the PsycARTICLES database. The article was published in volume 70, issue 3, in June 2002, on pages 843-851. The journal is paginated continuously throughout the volume. The article was written by Ilene C. Siegler, Lori A. Bastian, David C. Steffens, Hayden B. Bosworth, and Paul T. Costa. The database provides the DOI (digital object identifier) 10.1037/0022-006X.70.3.843 for the article.
◯ Siegler, I. C., Bastian, L. A., Steffens, D. C., Bosworth, H. B., and Costa, P. T. (2002). Behavioral medicine and aging. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 843-851. Retrieved from PsycARTICLES database.
◯ Siegler, I. C., Bastian, L. A., Steffens, D. C., Bosworth, H. B., and Costa, P. T. (2002). Behavioral medicine and aging. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 843-851. doi:10.1037/0022-006X.70.3.843
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undefined. The student has paraphrased material from an article titled “The Role of Coping Humor in the Physical and Mental Health of Older Adults,” published in November 2008 in the scholarly journal Aging and Mental Health, volume 12, issue 6, pages 713-718. The journal is paginated continuously throughout the volume. The article was written by Elsa Marziali, Lynn McDonald, and Peter Donahue.
◯ Marziali, E., McDonald, L., and Donahue, P. (2008). The role of coping humor in the physical and mental health of older adults. Aging and Mental Health, 12, 713-718.
◯ Marziali, E., McDonald, L., and Donahue, P. (2008, November). The role of coping humor in the physical and mental health of older adults. Aging and Mental Health, 12, 713-718.
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undefined. The student summarized information from an audio file that was retrieved from the Web site http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99958952. The story, “Brain Study Indicates Why Some Memories Persist,” was reported by Jon Hamilton and posted on January 29, 2009. It was retrieved by the student on February 8, 2009.
◯ Hamilton, J. (2008, January 29). Brain study indicates why some memories persist [Audio file]. Retrieved February 8, 2009, from http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99958952
◯ Hamilton, J. (2008, January 29). Brain study indicates why some memories persist [Audio file]. Retrieved from http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99958952
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undefined. The student has paraphrased information from an abstract of a journal article titled “Aging and Emotional Memory: Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying the Positivity Effect.” The article was written by Julia Spaniol, Andreas Voss, and Cheryl L. Grady and appears on pages 859-872 of volume 23, issue 4, of Psychology and Aging, published in December 2008. The journal is paginated continuously throughout the volume.
◯ Spaniol, J., Voss, A., and Grady, C. L. (2008). Abstract of Aging and emotional memory: Cognitive mechanisms underlying the positivity effect. Psychology and Aging, 23, 859-872.
◯ Spaniol, J., Voss, A., and Grady, C. L. (2008). Aging and emotional memory: Cognitive mechanisms underlying the positivity effect [Abstract]. Psychology and Aging, 23, 859-872.
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undefined. The student is quoting material from a doctoral dissertation by Lea Angela Truman Drye titled Examining the Relationship of Education and Late-Life Mental Activity with Cognitive Decline, dated 2008. The dissertation was retrieved from the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database and has the accession number AAT 3309643.
◯ Drye, L. A. T. (2008). Examining the relationship of education and late-life mental activity with cognitive decline (Doctoral dissertation). Available from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. (AAT 3309643)
◯ Drye, L. A. T. (2008). Examining the relationship of education and late-life mental activity with cognitive decline. Available from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database.
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