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12An APA Research Paper Model
Thomas Delancy and Adam Solberg wrote the following research paper for
a psychology class. As you review their paper, read the side notes and examine the
following:
The use and documentation of their numerous sources.
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The background they provide before getting into their own study results.
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The scientific language used when reporting their results.
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Running on Empty
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title one inch
from the top.
Running on Empty: The Effects of Food Deprivation
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on Concentration and Perseverance
throughout.
Many things interrupt people’s ability to focus on a task: distractions,
headaches, noisy environments, and even psychological disorders. To
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some extent, people can control the environmental factors that make it
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difficult to focus. However, what about internal factors, such as an empty
states the
topic and
stomach? Can people increase their ability to focus simply by eating
the main
regularly?
questions to
be explored.
One theory that prompted research on how food intake affects the
average person was the glucostatic theory. Several researchers in the
1940s and 1950s suggested that the brain regulates food intake in order
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to maintain a blood-glucose set point. The idea was that people become
researchers
supply
hungry when their blood-glucose levels drop significantly below their set
background
point and that they become satisfied after eating, when their blood-glucose
information
by discussing
levels return to that set point. This theory seemed logical because glucose
past research
is the brain’s primary fuel (Pinel, 2000). The earliest investigation of the
on the topic.
general effects of food deprivation found that long-term food deprivation
(36 hours and longer) was associated with sluggishness, depression,
irritability, reduced heart rate, and inability to concentrate (Keys, Brozek,
Henschel, Mickelsen, & Taylor, 1950). Another study found that fasting
Extensive
referencing
for several days produced muscular weakness, irritability, and apathy or
establishes
depression (Kollar, Slater, Palmer, Docter, & Mandell, 1964). Since that time,
support
for the
research has focused mainly on how nutrition affects cognition. However, as
discussion.
Green, Elliman, and Rogers (1995) point out, the effects of food deprivation
on cognition have received comparatively less attention in recent years.
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