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Week 4, Day 1

PSY 3215 U01B 1215, Lab

Lab Overview

Part I: Changes

Part II: Corrections for your Literature Review

Part III: Common Issues with the Lit. Review

Part I: Changes

Part I

The due date for Experimental Paper I is now Saturday, July 17th at Midnight

This means you need to turn it in Saturday at 11:59 PM

Alongside the paper, you will need to turn in corrections for your literature review

This is important to increase your literature review grade and get a good grade on Experimental paper 1

Part II: Corrections for your Literature Review

Part II

Needs to be turned in at the same time as your literature review

Must be handed in to get a grade on Experimental Paper I

But should be done anyway, since all your material on the corrected literature review will be going into Experimental Paper I

Corrections: How do they work?

You resubmit your Literature Review, but this time fix the suggestions that have been left for you via feedback.

When you resubmit, depending on how completely you fix your errors..

Corrections: What does it get me?

You may earn up to half the points you lost on the literature review.

An 80%  90%

A 50%  75%

Everyone can move up a letter grade at least!

Anyone who got half points will be rounded up to the nearest whole point

Part III: Common Issues with the Lit. Review

Part III

The most common issues were in the literature review itself. They were:

-Missing overview

-Missing summarization

-Missing specifics for hypothesis

-Not enough depth in your review

Part III

Missing overview

Goes in the first or second paragraph

Is supposed to give an idea of what you’re focusing on in your study by explicitly stating it

Part III

Missing summarization

Comes after the main literature review, but before the hypothesis

A few sentences that talks about the connecting themes in the literature you found and how you’ll be investigating

Part III

Missing specifics for hypothesis

It’s not enough to say you want to “compare the anxiety” of x group to y group.

How are you going to compare? What measures are you taking?

You need to let your reader know what your groups are (IVs), what measures your taking (DV), and what your prediction is (the hypothesis)

Part III

Not enough depth in your review:

This was typically posted if your review didn’t cover:

Who or what was in the experiment

What the experiment was on

The actual scope of the project (if you were looking at an analysis of many studies then you should mention how many studies were looked at)

What was found

Part III

Not enough depth in your review:

Don’t just use a citation as a supporting point; use the evidence from the paper to support your point!

Lay out what was done in the paper; dig into the specifics.

Once you’ve covered the content of the paper, you can talk about how it’s relevant to the point you’re trying to make

Part III

Not enough depth in your review (an example):

Here’s what NOT to do on a paper. In this example I show a paragraph covering how exercise helps anxiety.

Part III

“There is a point to be made that the effects of exercise on anxiety are universal. No matter your age or gender, exercise can always help with anxiety (Moor et al., 2006). This is an important point to consider when….”

Part III

That citation did not get into any details of the study or give our readers any reason why excise is always helpful to anxiety regardless of age or gender.

Now, let’s look at the same citation but with more depth.

Part III

“There is a point to be made that the effects of exercise on anxiety are universal. Research by Moor et al. (2006) looked at the ways that regular exercise can have an impact on anxiety & other neuroticisms. They found after reviewing a sample of adolescent and adult twins along with their families (N = 19,288) from a registry of twin data in the Netherlands, that even though exercise does normally decline with age it always has the effect of reducing anxiety, neuroticism and depression. Questionnaires measured their anxiety, and a more exact calculation of their exercise was taken to specifically measure the exact effect of exercise on their mood. This effect was consistent across genders and emphasizes how exercise is a universal way to help combat anxiety. This is an important point to consider when…”

Part III

The previous paragraph went into depth of the study. It talked about who the population was, what measures were taken, and it also contextualizes the results we care about (anxiety) among the other results that were taken (depression & neuroticism).

When you review a paper, it needs to be both a supporting point for your argument but also a chance to show your reader what the field of your research looks like. Sometimes you can simply use a citation as a supporting point, but doing this and only this keeps your reader from understanding the bigger picture about how your topic works in the larger body of the field