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PSY 3215 U01B 1215, LAB

Lab Overview

Part I: Methods

Part II: Abstract

Part III: References

Part IV: Literature Review

Part I: Methods

The methods shows your reader the steps your experiment took

It should give your readers the who, where, what & how

Who – The participants in your experiment? What was the average age? What was the ethnicity breakdown? Gender breakdown? Socio-economic status?

Where – Were your participants collected from a university? A club? Were they paid subjects that were recruited via advertisement?

What – Did you give your participants a questionnaire? Did you run them through a training program? Did they injest medicine?

How – Be specific. Walk your reader through your exact steps

Part I: Methods

What you will be graded on:

Methods section written in the paste tense

Methods section needs to be at least 2 pages

The methods title needs to be centered and bolded

The section describing participants is a subsection: it needs to be flushed to the left and bolded

Do you mention the number of participants in your study?

Do you mention the characteristics of your sample (% male/ female, % students vs non students, etc..)

Descriptives for the age of your sample (mean, range, SD)

Part I: Methods

What you will be graded on:

The racial/ethnic breakdown of your sample

Are your statistical notations italicized (N = 100, SD = 6.28)?

Do you follow the participants section with an appropriate subsection header for materials and procedures?

Should it even be materials and procedures? (Measures & Procedures, Data & Procedures, etc)

Do you mention the materials/methods and how it was rated/measured?

Do your scales mention the range (1 to 5, Strongly disagree to Strongly agree)?

Do your measures have the proper metrics (mg, uV, m3, etc)

Part I: Methods

What you will be graded on:

Do you mention what kind of analysis/analyses you conducted (Hint: you’ll be doing a kind of t-test)

Part II: Abstract

The abstract is a brief summary of what you did

It needs to include superficial details of what you did and what you found, but not necessarily of why it is important, or what the significance to the field is

It is a gateway to the substance of your paper

Part II: Abstract

What you will be graded on

Is the abstract centered and bolded

Did you make sure NOT to indent the first line?

Is it 120-150 words in length?

Does it briefly discuss your study as a whole?

Purpose of research

Study design (experimental, quasi-experimental, etc)

Sample size & sample characteristics?

What about the statistical analyses you preformed?

Part II: Abstract

What you will be graded on

Did you include a keywords section, with 3 – 7 keywords relevant to your study?

Part III: References

References need to be on their own separate page

They need to be APA format

Your reader should be able to go through them quickly in an organized fashion to find complete information on any paper you cite!

Part III: References

What you will be graded on:

Do references start on their own page?

Is the word references centered and bolded?

Are the references in alphabetical order

Are all citations in the references?

Is your first line flush left while all others are indented?

Did you used the right symbols/notation for more than one author?

Are you properly italicizing & capitalizing?

Do you have the date of publication, the volume number, the page numbers & the DOI?

Part IV: Literature Review

A literature review is designed to take work that is relevant to your topic and help “funnel it down” for your reader.

First get your reader to care about the topic you’re talking about

Next introduce with topics that are farther away or more loosely related to your study, then get closer and closer to the study you’re doing

The purpose here is to help guide your reader to an understanding of the field and how your work is going to fit in to that field

Part IV: Literature Review

Finally, summarize what you’ve discussed and then state your hypothesis, linking the two together

Part IV: Literature Review

What you will be graded on:

Title Page – Do you have a header?

Is it in all capital letters & 12 point Times New Roman font?

Do you have a page number on the same line as the header?

Is your title centered?

Do you have your name and institution?

Does your literature review start with an introduction that gives us a reason to care?

Does your literature review narrow down to your hypothesis?

Part IV: Literature Review

What you will be graded on:

Do your paragraphs transition from one to the next (you mention how your paragraphs and topics are related, not just provide an unconnected collection of paper summaries and then your hypothesis)?

Does your paper end in a specific hypothesis?

Are your predictions written in the past tense?

Is your paper at least 2 pages long (not including the title page or the references page)?

Are your articles from at least 1990 or more recent?