A-Plus Writer ONLY Research Methods: Final Project EARLY METHODS SECTION RE: The Role of Introversion vs. Extroversion on Marital Bliss

Running head: EXTRAVERSION AND MARITAL BLISS 1

EXTRAVERSION AND MARITAL BLISS 2

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Extraverts and Not Introverts Secure Marital Bliss

Jason Williams

Argosy University

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Author Note

This research was carried out as partial fulfillment towards experimental methods course by Jason Williams.

Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Jason Williams, Department of Psychology, Argosy University, Phoenix 2233 West Dunlap Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85021 Email: Email: [email protected]

( Put main title of the study here. )Extraverts and Not Introverts Secure Marital Bliss

1. What is your research question? (Explanation and justification of research question).

2. What is your hypothesis or hypotheses? What is the null hypothesis?

Method

3. How many participants would you like to use and why? What are the inclusion characteristics, i.e., what must they have in order to be included in your study (for example, gender, diagnosis, age, personality traits, etc.)? Are there any exclusion characteristics, i.e. are there certain characteristics that would exclude them from being in your study? Does the sample need to be diverse? Why or why not (see Shauhnessey, Zechmeister, & Zechmeister, 2009 for more information)?

4. What sampling technique will be used to collect your sample? What population does your sample generalize to?

5. What are the variables in your study? HINT: Refer back to your hypothesis or hypotheses.

6. Provide operational definitions for each variable.

7. How will you measure (questionnaires, survey instruments etc.,) each variable? Discuss the reliability and validity of these measures in general terms.

8. What technique will be used for data collection (e.g., observation, survey, interview, archival, etc.)?

9. What type of research design is being used?

10. Briefly discuss the procedure that would be followed when conducting the research.

11. What are some POTENTIAL ethical issues? How might they be addressed?

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Shauhnessey, J., Zechmeister, E., & Zechmeister, J. (2009). Research methods in psychology (8th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.