Project: Introduction and Background

Week 4: Introduction and Background (8-10 pages)

· Evaluate critically the peer-reviewed articles you selected in Week 2.

· Prepare an “Introduction” and “Background” that summarizes the peer-reviewed articles you selected.

In Week 4, you present a synthesis of the 20 peer-reviewed articles you selected in Week 2. Briefly summarize information presented in each article. In your summary, include pertinent theoretical and empirical findings, methodology, and/or research disparities relating to your topic.

Include in the assignment the following information:

· An overview of relevant theories related to the motivation topic (Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs )you selected

· A description of major theoretical propositions and/or major hypotheses of those theories

· A review and synthesis of the studies related to the motivation topic you selected

· A review and synthesis of studies related to the key independent, dependent, and covariate variables in order to produce a description and explanation of what is known about the variables, what is controversial (i.e., mixed findings by researchers), and what remains to be studied