Psychology

Title: This should be informative without being lengthy – it needs to attract the au\dience so try to make your research sound enticing. You should also include the university name and your student ID number on the title page. Please also state if you are a January start or Criminology with Psychology Student.

Introduction: You should focus on identifying the key points only. Write in short, uncomplicated, informative, paragraphs. The introduction should provide a clear rationale for the current research. End the introduction with a statement of the aims and hypotheses to be tested.

Method: use clear sub-headings; include information about the design, the participants, the materials/equipment and the procedure. It is particularly important that you do not include irrelevant detail and it is acceptable to write in bullet points rather than long prose.

Results: It is essential to provide a clear table of means or a graph. Include information about the statistical tests that were performed, the significance of any differences between groups or conditions and direction of any effects relevant to the hypotheses or research questions.

Discussion: State what the results mean and relate them to theory and previous research described in the introduction. However, you again do not go into the detail that you would in a lab report – use short, clear paragraphs.

References: Include a list of the sources referred to throughout your report – you may use a smaller point size in the reference section. Use APA referencing both in text and the reference list. Remember, when you are at a conference the person you are referencing may be there – consequently, it is imperative that you reference correctly.

Abstract
? Write a 200 word Abstract
? Two – three sentences per section of the report
1. Intro – what/why your report is about (ref)
2. Method – who and how
3. Results – main findings
4. Conclusion – what can be inferred?
? ‘Structured Abstract’
? This means you can include stats
Evaluation
? Write a 500 word Evaluation of the study.
? Do not use this section to include new information or similarly just summarise (restate) your report or findings
1. Address genuine issues (i.e. assume that your p’s are appropriate and that you do have enough p’s etc.) concentrate on how the design be improved
2. Future research – but must have a reason: if M vs. F why!?
3. ETHIC’s – what ethics should you take into account?
? – E.g. ‘drug users’ what ethical issues would you encounter?
? This is the section that students tend to struggle with most and get wrong. It is not intended that this section be used to just repeat the report or add other research that could/should have been included in the report. Nor should they ‘make things up’ e.g. one participant was late.
? Students should include genuine improvements. There is likely to be room for improvement – this has limited them to a 2 x 2 but what other conditions could have been included? Don’t suggest that more participants are needed – they most definitely are not needed for this type of experiment! Particularly where something is significant there is nothing to be achieved by including more participants. Furthermore, you are more likely to get a null effect if there are not enough participants.
? Future research must have a rationale and not just lazy suggestions such as compare males and females, you must have a rationale for it – why would we predict a difference?

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