Psychology 2800E Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Likert Scale

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

Document Summary

Methods: describe who was tested, equipment and material used to text, provide enough detail to enable someone else to replicate, based solely on this description. State the step-by-step procedure used: allows readers to evaluate the appropriateness of methodology. Participants: details the population in the study, helps validate generalizability, allows readers to make comparisons across studies. State compensation: did participants fail the complete the study, or excluded from analyses (if so, explain why) List any equipment, measures or materials used in their study and their purposes. If we have independent and dependent variables, state how they were measured, like which stimulus materials or response measures correspond to which variables. If pre-existing ones were used, provide the name and the author citation: report the total number of items in a test, and the type of items (likert scale, items requiring a yes/no response)