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Title of the paper

Your Name

Class & Institutional affiliation

Abstract

In the abstract you should: (Don’t use bullet points. This is just to list things that should be in your abstract.)

· Identify the article that you have selected from the ‘Articles’ folder on Blackboard

· Paraphrase the abstract of this article

· State in your own words what you think this article is about

· Identify how many experiments this article has (some many only have 1 experiment, and some may have up to 4 different experiments in one paper) and state which experiment (e.g., Experiment 1 or Experiment 2) that you will be analyzing

Keywords: put, some, keywords, or, phrases, that, would, help, others, know, what, your, paper, was, about

Title of the Paper

This section should be your introduction. This section should be AT LEAST ¾ of a page, but no longer than 1 full page, double spaced (Times New Roman – 12 font). Things that you should include:

· Introduce the topic of your paper/the article you chose.

· Provide a brief history of the topic.

· Which article did you select and why; why is this study important to students today? (Don’t use “I”. Instead: The article selected for this analysis is … This study is important today because …)

· What is the research question in this experiment? What are they studying and why?

· If you are using direct citations or direct quotes, make sure to cite your source or it will be plagiarism! (You should have to cite some in this section! Look at the in-text citations section on the Purdue Owl APA link. Once you get to the page, look on the left side tabs.)

(The introduction ends here. Do not go into the Literature Review. That is for next week)

Literature Review

Topic of the First Supporting Article/Study You are Discussing ( Here you will write the topic of the first supporting study that you will be paraphrasing. Below here you will paraphrase it.)

Talk about the first of those other supporting studies here. Do correct APA citation of the article title and the authors. Keep track of this study for your References page that will be due at the end of the semester.

Topic of the Second Supporting Article/Study you are Discussing ( Here you will write the topic of the second supporting study that you will be paraphrasing. Below here you will paraphrase it.)

Talk about the second supporting study here. Do correct APA citation of the article title and the authors. Keep track of this study for your References page that will be due at the end of the semester.

The total of the Literature Review should be at least 1 full double-spaced page. Remember, all your work should be double spaced in Times New Roman, 12 size font, just like this page. (Your Literature Review should look EXACTLY like this page but obviously with your information in place of the current things I have as placeholders.)

Methods

In this assignment you will identify participants, instruments/materials, and procedures as a way of explaining how the study in the article was conducted. You should use subheadings, like below. The total of this Methods section should be AT LEAST ¾ of a page long and should look EXACTLY like this. Look at whether words are bold, italicized, if paragraphs are tabbed, everything is double-spaced, etc. Continue to pay attention to the running head title and page number! (You do not need to type anything between the Methods heading and the Participants sub-heading, I just typed here to give you the instructions. Jump straight into the participants!)

Participants

Here, you will talk about WHO the participants were. How many participated? Where did they get them from? What were some of the statistics of the participants, ages, sex, education level, etc. etc. Any information that the survey shares about the participants should be paraphrased and cited here.

Instruments/Materials

Here, you will talk about WHAT the researchers used to conduct their study. Did they provide a survey to their participants? Did they test them? Did they interview them? Did they observe them?

Procedures

Here, you will talk about HOW they did it. Since we now know what instruments/materials they used, what did they do with those instruments? How did they give them to their participants? Was it random? Did they debrief them? Did the participant sign an informed consent to allow the researchers to use their information in the study? How did they get surveys back? DO NOT give results here, just talk about HOW they did it.

Results

In this section you will paraphrase what the results or findings of your article were. Your article should have a section called “Results” or “Findings”. Go there. Read it. Paraphrase it here. By paraphrase it, I mean put it into words that make sense to you. You might see a lot of words or symbols that don’t make any sense to you. Much of it is advanced Psychology or research terms. You should Google search what they mean so that you can put it in your paper in words that make sense to you.

Remember, your paragraphs should be indented, just like the ones here are. Make sure to cite, cite, cite! Please do not use too many direct quotes. If you do, make sure to cite it correctly. Make sure to look at the difference between beginning-of-sentence, end-of-sentence, and quote citations. You can find info. on all of these on the APA website I provided, left side tabs called “In-Text Citations: The Basics” and/or “In-Text Citations: Author/Authors”.

Your Results submission should be at least ½ a page but no more than 1 full page. That is all! You are all starting to do a lot better on these paper sections! I know it was tough at first, but you are all doing well. Keep up the great work!

Discussion

Review the discussion section in the paper that you are analyzing. Identify:

· Any limitations of the study

· How should future research move forward (which is what you are going to hypothetically do!)…

Follow-up Experiment

In this section, describe how you would extend the research. For example, what questions still remain after analyzing the results of the paper? How would you answer these questions? Develop an additional research question.

Proposed Method

In this section, explain who your participants will be (i.e., who will you use to collect your data in order to answer your research question?). What are your independent variables? dependent variable(s)? How will you conduct your research? (refer back to the method/procedure section in the paper that you analyzed to help clarify how to write this section).

Expected Results

Explain how you would expect your results to turn out (e.g., your hypothesis) and also show these hypothetical results on a graph. For example, if my research question was: does caffeine enhance memory? I would have my independent variable (amount of caffeine—I would have given one group of participants a high dose of caffeine and one group of participants a low dose of caffeine) on the x-axis and my dependent variable (memory performance—I would give both groups the same memory test after their caffeine intake to see which group did better) on my y-axis. If I expected the results to show that caffeine enhanced memory, my graph would look like this:

Overall Discussion

Complete the paper with a conclusion. For example, restate the general topic of the analyzed study. Explain how your follow-up experiment builds on the analyzed study. Why was your research question important? Why did you expect the see the hypothetical results that you demonstrated in your graph? Are there any follow-up research questions that you could have asked concerning this topic?

In your final paragraph, describe how this project has helped your understanding of how research is conducted in the field of psychology.

References

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Memory Performance