EXERCISE APA 2–3 Avoiding plagiarism in APA papers

EXERCISE APA 2–3Avoiding plagiarism in APA papers

Read the following passage and the information about its source. Then decide whether each student sample is plagiarized or uses the source correctly. If the student sample is plagiarized, click on Plagiarized; if the sample is acceptable, click on OK.

ORIGINAL SOURCE

Mass psychogenic illness, or epidemic hysteria, is usually defined as a set of unexplained symptoms affecting two or more people; in most cases, victims share a theory of some sort about what is causing their distress. Often, somebody smells something funny, which may or may not be a chemical and which may or may not be there, but which in any case does not account for the subsequent symptoms. Relapses tend to happen when the people affected congregate again. And, notably, the mechanism of contagion is quite different from what you would expect in, say, a viral illness: symptoms spread by “line of sight,” which is to say, people get sick as they see other people getting sick. Some element of unusual psychological stress is often at play. . . . Adolescents and preadolescents are particularly susceptible. And girls are more likely to fall ill than boys.

From Talbot, M. (2002, June 2). Hysteria hysteria. The New York Times Magazine, pp. 42-47, 58-59, 96, 98, 101-102.

[The source passage is from pages 58-59. The word Adolescents begins page 59.]

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EXERCISE APA 2–3 Avoiding plagiarism in APA papers - 1 of 10: Mass psychogenic illness, also known as epidemic hysteria, is a set of unexplained symptoms affecting two or more people who usually share a theory of some sort about what is causing their distress.

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EXERCISE APA 2–3 Avoiding plagiarism in APA papers - 2 of 10: As Talbot (2002) has pointed out, victims of mass hysteria may believe that they have breathed in a strange odor that might or might not have been a toxic substance and that might or might not have been present; the chemical would not, in any case, explain the subsequent symptoms (p. 58).

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EXERCISE APA 2–3 Avoiding plagiarism in APA papers - 3 of 10: In cases of mass hysteria, according to Talbot (2002), “Often, somebody smells something funny, which may or may not be a chemical and which may or may not be there, but which in any case does not account for the subsequent symptoms” (p. 58).

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EXERCISE APA 2–3 Avoiding plagiarism in APA papers - 4 of 10: Talbot (2002) explained that people affected by an outbreak of epidemic hysteria usually “share a theory of some sort about what is causing their distress” (p. 58).

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EXERCISE APA 2–3 Avoiding plagiarism in APA papers - 5 of 10: Talbot (2002) has described the peculiar nature of mass psychogenic illness, in which sufferers agree about the underlying cause—an odd smell, for example—of their physical symptoms and suffer relapses when they come in contact with other victims (p. 58).

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EXERCISE APA 2–3 Avoiding plagiarism in APA papers - 6 of 10: People become ill when they see other people becoming ill, according to Talbot (2002), so the “mechanism of contagion” is not at all what you would expect in, for example, a viral ailment (p. 58).

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EXERCISE APA 2–3 Avoiding plagiarism in APA papers - 7 of 10: According to Talbot (2002), epidemic hysteria differs in several ways from other contagious diseases; for example, relapses among victims tend to happen when the people affected congregate again (p. 58).

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EXERCISE APA 2–3 Avoiding plagiarism in APA papers - 8 of 10: Talbot (2002) explained that mass psychogenic illness often afflicts people when they are under some kind of psychological pressure (p. 58).

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EXERCISE APA 2–3 Avoiding plagiarism in APA papers - 9 of 10: Adolescents and preadolescents are particularly susceptible to mass hysteria, and girls are more likely to fall ill than boys are.

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EXERCISE APA 2–3 Avoiding plagiarism in APA papers - 10 of 10: Talbot (2002) noted that certain groups of people most often succumb to epidemic hysteria—preadolescents and adolescents, especially, with girls more frequently affected than boys (p. 59).