Lab Report on Simon Effect in Attention

Method

Instructions: Write a brief but full lab report in APA style on a Lab experiment. Your report should correspond to the ATTENTION area of cognition. The experiment you report is Simon Effect.
. This is quite short for a lab report, but I want you to learn to write succinctly and concisely, and not resort to ’padding’ and ‘academese’.

TASKS REQUIRED, MORE SPECIFICALLY:
For the Lab Report you should describe in separate and clearly labelled subsections:

Introduction: Theoretical background including hypothesis to be tested (with Independent Variables and Dependent Variables correctly specified). You should refer to relevant chapters in the textbook and AT LEAST THREE peer-reviewed empirical sources, preferably journal articles reporting on experiments addressing the same research question or using the same experimental paradigm.

Method: including stimuli and procedure (i.e. instructions, actual task performed, stimulus exposure parameters, how Dependent Variables was measured, etc.)
The methods section informs the reader how the study was conducted, what materials and equipment were used, and who the participants were. A methods section is usually made up of THREE SECTIONS (using these headings in this):
Participants – all relevant characteristics of participants, i.e. all those characteristics that could affect your Dependent Variables in patterns like Independent Variable effects. Include their average age and sex ratios even if not expected to be confounding factors. Describe sampling method and recruitment procedure
Materials and Instruments – this includes information about equipment and software used, and stimuli (i.e., what did/would you have shown participants? How were stimulus lists constructed?)
Procedure – description of what was done/intended to be done with participant (what, where, for how long, summary of instructions given) in enough detail to allow replication by others. Specify instructions given for both study phase and test phase

Results (your data): in words and supported by AT LEAST ONE GRAPH AND ONE TABLE (APA formatted and with self-explanatory captions). A written description and statistical analysis of what you would have found. As you write your results section, you need to clearly refer to the table and graphs. The statistical analyses for this assignment do not need to be any more complex than comparisons of means and frequency distributions.
Only report on the actual findings in this section; do not include interpretations or explanation for (lack of) findings – save those for the discussion. Emphasis here is on accuracy (accurately reporting on findings). Note that a large proportion of the mark for this assignment comes from the tables and graphs, so spend some time on getting this right.
Discussion: relate results to hypothesis