PSY270H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Descriptive Statistics, Dependent And Independent Variables, Standard Deviation
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Introduction: state your research goals and hypotheses. How to research on background: have around 3 articles to review, peer-reviewed, read articles cited in the review articles, recent articles, credit all sources. If you use direct quotes, include names in quotation marks and the page number. If you rephrase what they say, still source their work. Give an idea to the reader what you did. It should have enough detail that if someone wanted to recreate your experiment they could. Participants (number of people, characteristics (average age, number of males and females just say how many of one sex there are, students what type of students) Material/stimuli (equipment/materials/apparatus used, how many words were used, what was used to collect the data, Design + procedure (may be combined or separate. You don"t want to repeat yourself) identify what the variables are (iv and dv) state whether it is a between participant design and within participant design and state what these are.
