Participate in an Online Psychology Experiment and Write a Research Report

Procedure

Procedure
-You will participate in an online demonstration of a classic experiment developed for this course. Click here to set your computer system for running the experiment. Read the brief information about this experiment in the Informed Consent page. If you agree to take part in this experiment as part of the requirement for Psychology 304, give your consent. (If you have difficulties with the experiment, please email [email protected] and include your Student ID number as well as a description of the problem.)
-Once you have given consent, further instructions will appear on your computer screen. Simply follow the instructions given to complete your participation in the experiment.
-When you have submitted your response, you will receive further information about this experiment and a copy of your response.
-Please read the articles by Bower et al. (1969)   and by Matlin (2002)  carefully in preparation for writing your report. You are also required to find other relevant articles for this assignment. While the report is a based on the experiment you participated in, you should write up your report from the point of view of a researcher (not a participant).
-Write a report based on the procedure and findings of the experiment in which you have just participated. There were 20 participants, including yourself. You did the experiment to see what your participants witnessed and to collect the data required to write up the report.
-MPlease review in detail the articles by Bower et al., (1969), Matlin (2002) (AU Library) and other researchers in your introduction to provide the background needed for your readers to follow along. You need to review past research on the topic so that you readers have the knowledge to understand what you did in this study.
-You are expected to follow the APA (i.e., American Psychological Association) style. Refer to the sample article in Chapter 4 of White and McBurney (2013) e-text to learn how to present and format the report.
-Below are some questions you will need to think about when you are writing your report.  Please do not submit the answers to these questions one by one. The assignment you hand in should be written in a research article or report format.

Introduction
-What is the research problem?
-What previous research has been conducted?
-Why is this research problem important to study?
-What is the hypothesis?

Method
-What was the design of this experiment?
-What was (were) the independent variable(s)?
-How was it (were they) manipulated?
-What was (were) the dependent variable(s)?
-How was it (were they) measured?
-Was a within-subjects or a between-subjects design used in the experiment?
-Who were the participants?
-What apparatus was used?
-What was the procedure for data collection?

Results
-What were your results? Attach a table or a graph to your report, if appropriate.
-Note that you can go back to the experiment and access the word lists and the results after completing the study.

Discussion
-How do you interpret the results of this experiment?
-What conclusions, if any, can you draw?
-How do the results of this experiment relate to what was known?
-What are the limitations of the experiment?
-What suggestions do you have for future research?

References
-List any books or journal articles that you cited in your report.

Abstract
-Write a summary of the experiment using a maximum of 120 words. The Abstract should be at the beginning of your report. It is, however, easier to write the abstract after you have finished writing the whole report.