Please accept only if you can follow directions VERY CAREFULLY AND PRECISELY: Before starting to work on this: The idea including variables and how the study will be run, needs to be run by the professor. so please send me the idea as soon as you have one. Then, when I get back with an okay, the professor wants the introduction piece sent to him and approved before doing the entire paper to make sure it is being done correctly. Please let me know you understand this and will follow accordingly.
The final paper in this course is a research proposal of an original factorial design study on any topic in Psychology. The goals of the paper are to demonstrate your ability to:
1. select, understand and explain 2 research articles from the Psychology literature, (peer reviewed)
2. formulate an original research idea based on those articles and
3. design a 2 x 2 factorial design.
Your design must include at least 1 IV that is manipulated – the other may be a participant-variable or a second manipulated variable. BE SPECIFIC on how you will manipulate variables and be specific on the results.
Write this as if it were a grant proposal – convince reviewers that your project is worth their grant money.
Introduction:
Define & describe the topic of your proposal. This must be based on the literature.
Summarize two research articles that are related to your topic. Two paragraphs for each article – main points. Focus on information from the articles
that is directly related to your proposal.
State the purpose of your study.
Explain the rationale for your study, based on the literature. How did the findings or ideas in these articles lead to your proposed study?
Briefly explain your method being sure to include descriptions of both independent variables and the dependent variable.
State your hypotheses – you must predict an interaction and depending on the interaction, you may also have a main effect.
Method:
Participants:
Describe who would be in the study, the number of participants you think you would need to have enough power in the design and any restrictions on who could be in the study.
Materials:
Describe in detail how you would operationally define your variables. This must be as detailed as if you were actually going to carry out the study. If it is appropriate, find a scale or measure in the literature to measure your dependent variable instead of creating one.
Procedure:
Describe the proposed design and explain step-by-step what participants would do in your study.
Results:
You will not have any actual data to analyze, but you need to explain how it would be done.
Operationally define your dependent variable – explain the possible range of scores and if appropriate, explain how you would measure reliability.
Explain how you would test your hypotheses (using a 2 x 2 ANOVA) and the results you would expect if your hypotheses were supported.
Be sure to mention the Figure and include the Figure after the Reference page.
Discussion:
Re-state the purpose of your experiment and the hypotheses.
Explain how you would interpret your findings if your hypotheses were supported.
Discuss any limitations with the research.
End with the conclusion you would draw from your study assuming it was successful.
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