Teaching Tolerance and Sensitization to Undergraduates

As a future health psychology professional, you will need to communicate information to different audiences with varying levels of familiarity with a topic.

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For this Assignment, create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation (10 slides) that differentiates tolerance and sensitization, which could be presented to an undergraduate Introduction to Psychology class. Assume that this is the first time they are learning about the topic.

Submit by Day 7 your PowerPoint presentation that differentiates tolerance from sensitization. Include your lecture notes within the Notes feature of PowerPoint for your Instructor.

Note: There is no one definitive format for a PowerPoint presentation. You are encouraged to explore and research best practices. As a starting point, you may want to refer to the Walden University Writing Center guidelines, under “PowerPoint Presentation.”

Support your Assignment with specific references to the Learning Resources and any additional references you used.

READINGS

Hancock, S. D, & McKim, W. A. (2018). Drugs and behavior: An introduction to behavioral pharmacology (8th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
- Chapter 2, “Behavioral Analysis of Drug Effects” (pp. 22-35)
Gilpin, N. W., Smith, A. D., Cole, M., Weiss, F., Koob, G. F., & Richardson, H. N. (2009). Operant behavior and alcohol levels in blood and brain of alcohol-dependent rats. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 33(12), 2113–2123.
Retrieved from US National Library of Medicine, NIH:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2789881/pdf/nihms146200.pdf

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.