PSY4500/Week 4 - Assignment: Analyze Experiments

10/6/2020 Week 4 - Assignment: Analyze Experiments - PSY-4500 V2: Capstone in Psychology (9393120713) - Northcentral University

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This task will eventually be submitted as part of your Signature Assignment (Week 8), and does not need to be submitted at this time.

Assignment

This week's assignment requires you to analyze an experiment.

Step 1: Find three different articles where researchers used the same type of research methodology to conduct an experiment.

To locate these scholarly articles, search across databases, using Roadrunner Search. An example of databases that you can consider are:

Psychological science (0956-7976), Current Directions in Psychological Science (0963-7214), Psychological Science in the Public Interest (1529-1006), Perspectives on psychological science (1745-6916), and Clinical psychological science (2167-7026)

Step 2 : Prepare the overview of these articles. Include the following

A brief summary of the study A one paragraph explanation of the background in the field leading up to the study, and the reasons the researchers carried out the project. The significance of the study to the field of psychology A brief discussion of supportive or contradictory follow-up research findings and subsequent questioning or criticism from others in the field

Step 2. Evaluate the three articles according to the following:

Easy to Comprehend- Low

The hypothesis could be easily identified

The participants were identified

Steps taken to follow ethical guidelines were identified

Conflicting results from other studies were reported

Practical application and implication were reported

Article 1

Article 2

Article 3