reporting psychological investigations

Question 1

what is in the abstract and what is it?

Answer 1

-short summary
-aims and hypothesis, method, procedure, resuslts and conc

Question 2

what is in the introduction and what is it?

Answer 2

-detailing relevant theories concepts and studies
-aims and hypotheses

Question 3

what is in the method and what is it?

Answer 3

-sufficient detail for other researchers to replicate the study
-DESIGN= e.g independent groups, observation, reasons/justification for choice
-SAMPLE= information related to the people involved in the study, how many there were, demographic, sampling method and target pop
-APPARATUS/MATERIALS = detail of any assessment instruments used and any other materials
-PROCEDURE= a recipe style, everything that occurred in the investigation from beginning to end e.g briefing standardized instructions and debrief
-ETHICS= an explanation of how these were addressed within the study

Question 4

what is results and what is included in the results?

Answer 4

-summarise the key findings
-descriptive stats e.g tables, graphs and charts, central tendency, dispersion
-INFERENTIAL STATS= reference to the choice of stats test, calculated and critical value , level of sig, final outcome e.g hypothesis that was rejected
-raw data/calc in appendix
-qualitative methods of research likely to have analysis of themes or categories.

Question 5

what is the discussion and whats included?

Answer 5

-results discussed in verbal not stats
-should include any limitations of study
-how will limitaitons be adressed in the future?
-discuss the real world app

Question 6

what is referencing and whats included?

Answer 6

-includes full details of any source cited in the report

Question 7

how would u reference a journal/article

Answer 7

-surname, intial(year) Title of article, title of journal, edition(version)page numbers

Question 8

example of a journal/ article reference

Answer 8

-Gupta.S(1991)Effects of time of day and personality on intelligence scores. Personality and individual differences, 12(11), 1227-1231

Question 9

How would u reference a book?

Answer 9

surname, intial(year)Book title , publisihing company: city of publication

Question 10

example of book reference

Answer 10

Skinner, B.F(1953)Science and Human Behaviour. new york:MacMillan

Question 11

how would you reference a website

Answer 11

Surname, initial(year,date)Title of page used, main website title.(link and date accessed)

Question 12

example of website reference?

Answer 12

NHS(2018)Phobias:https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/phobias/[acessed May 2020]