observational paper

You will need a cover sheet-the behavior that you are observing
Psy 111
Your name
My name
Remember this cover sheet does not count as a page.This paper is 20 pages mandatory and you AAA personalities not more than 23.
Introduction-behavior you have chosen-why it is important to you,the community and society
Hypothesis-e.g.” Men will show more road rage than Women”
Prior research-in this section you have found two studies that talk about the behavior that you are observing-you will summarizes their findings and cite correctly-(Rathus,2013) or (Bee et al,2016) if it is more than one author Also remember you can utilize research that fits relates to the behavior that you are observing.Two is mandatory and you can do more.
Method-you will be observing 40 subjects-20 women/20 men-20 boys/20 girls
the two variables will be gender and ethnicity
how are you going to observe them/where
operational definition-you must define how you are defining the behavior that you are observing
controls-in this section you are just listing all the other possible variables that you feel may effect your observations-all you are doing is just listing them
Obsevations-#1
#2
#3
#40
You will write each subjects gender and ethnicity-their appearance ,what they were wearing and precisely what they were doing.Do not just put for example -they showed road rage-how/what did they do.
Analysis-gender-20 women -8 showed road rage
20 men-16 showed road rage
men showed the most road rage
Ethnicity-20 men-list their ethnicities-list the ethnicity of the 16 men who showed road rage-which was the highest-
20 women-list their ethnicities -8 do the same as the me.
Hypothesis-proved/disproved
Gender+ethnicity=e.g. Men +AA showed the most road rage
After you do your analysis you can do up to 5 pages of tables pie charts graphs-remember to label what your chart represents and use numbers-not%
Summary
You will summarize your findings
Compare your findings to the prior research
Talk about your feelings /experiences
Make recommendations for further research-not how to solve the problem but other variables to study-these come right from your control list
Reference page-is your 20th page or 23 page-it is a page by itself
proper format last name first/ alphabetical order-you must have 3 references and you can do more.
Please number your pages so you will know that you have 20 pages.

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