PSYSCHOLOGY PSY101
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Tutorial 2
Lab Reports
A lab report (or research report in the Burton text) is a standardised method of communicating research activity.
Each section tells a different part of the process:
what the researcher set out to do and why (INTRODUCTION)
how this was done (METHODS)
what the findings were (RESULTS)
what the results mean (DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION)
what background references were used (REFERENCES)
Research process
Lab Reports
Introduction
(1) What is the subject of the report? What is the experiment about?
(2) What is the theory on this subject? What have other researchers found out about this subject?
(3) How does this experiment compare with previous experiments done in that area (is it going to confirm a hypothesis already stated, to apply a methodology to other subjects? etc.)
(4) What is the aim or objective of the experiment or what hypothesis(es) is/are being tested? What are the researchers trying to find out?
