+1 862 207 3288 Final Project
APA style research report (15% of total grade)
The paper should have a minimum of 5 pages, and should include an introduction, methods section, results section, discussion, and reference section. The paper should contain at least 3 citations to relevant papers from the psychological literature. The format of the paper will be identical to all of the previous papers. The paper is not a group assignment. Each student will write their own paper.
Writing the paper
There are many resources for help on writing an APA style research report in the lab manual. As well, here is a rough roadmap for the writing paper.
1. Use APA formatting rules.
2. Create a suitable title for the paper
3. Write the abstract:
-no more than 250 words
-The aim is to very briefly describe the issue at hand, the experiment, and the results.
The introduction (around 2 double-spaced pages)
The goal of the introduction is to first put the research into a broader context, and then narrow the focus to describe the specific research aims.
A. Opening section: (starting broad) – about 1 paragraph
-Discuss the subject and examples from the real-world
B. Middle section: Prior work
-Discuss some examples of previous research. You have an opportunity here to look this kind of research up on Google Scholar. One or two examples ought to be enough.
C. Final section: (briefly explain the present aims, the experiment and what you expect to find)
-Briefly explain what the participants will be doing in the task
-briefly give predictions for performance in each condition
Methods (about 1 page)
The methods section should be a complete recipe that anyone could follow to replicate your experiment. There are lots of details that you can include, some of these are listed below. Be brief and concise.
Participants
-How many people? Where did they come from?
Materials
-what were the stimuli?
-how were they organized?
Procedure
-What was the design?
-what were the independent variable(s)
-What was the dependent variable -within or between subjects?
-How many trials -how were the stimuli for each trial chosen
-Describe the steps each participant took to complete the experiment
Results
The result section is used to report the patterns in the data, and the statistical support for those patterns. You will compute the results using SPSS in the lab computers.
–Describe the statistical analysis
-Tell the reader where they can see the data.
-e.g., the results of experiment 1 are presented in table 1, or in figure 1
-you will have to make a table or figure to display the data in your paper
-Report the statistical test, and the pattern of the means.
Discussion
The discussion can be used to briefly restate verbally the pattern of the most important results, and then to relate the results to theory and ideas developed in the introduction
-Highlight the main findings from the experiment
-Discuss how the data can be explained.
-Broaden your discussion. Can the findings be explained by an alternative theory?
What can these findings be generalized to in the real world? Are there important confounds that prevent us from interpreting our results?
References
-include citations used in the paper
Figures or tables
-Include the SPSS results (charts)
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