Psychology 2800E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pollination

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2800E
• Professor: Patrick Brown

Document Summary

Chapters: white = 4, stanovich = 4 communication in science is important for 2 reasons: pollination improving e ciency by avoiding wasted e ort it is the scientists responsibility to be understood. *anything that we can do to avoid wasted e ort attracts more money to research. 3 ways to present work written reports posters spoken presentations: written reports. Abstract: brief synopsis of the paper, trying to draw people"s attention, summarizes the main problem. Intro: sets the stage for the rest of the paper, states the general problem, what the reader needs to know (background info) in order to understand the work. Method: participants, materials, design, procedure (most important!) purpose 1: should be able to replicate experiment from the methods section purpose 2: another person should be able to judge the validity of the work. Discussion: builds on the results by drawing signi cance to the ndings.