Reporting psychological investigations Flashcards
What are the stages of reporting psychological investigations?
Title Table of contents Abstract Introduction Aims Hypothesis Procedure/method Findings/results Discussion Conclusion References Appendices
What must a title be?
Clear, relevant and fully informative
What does a table of contents show?
A description of where different information is within the study
What is abstract?
A summary of the research, including aim and hypothesis, method, results, conclusions and suggestions for future research
What is an introduction?
Details about why the study was conducted, including general theoretical background and previous research into the topic
What is an aim?
What exactly is being investigated
What is a hypothesis?
Predictions about what will be found and a justification as to whether it’ll be one tailed or two tailed .
Explain level of significance
What is a procedure/method?
Outline of what was done
Done so the study can be replicated
Explain design, sampling of RPS, materials, standardised procedure, controls
What are the findings/results?
Presentation of what was found including graphical representations, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics
What is discussion?
Explanation of findings, relationship of the findings to background research, limitations and modifications of the method and implications of the research as well as suggestions for future research
What is a conclusion for?
To summarise key conclusions drawn from the study
What are references?
References tall research consulted included journal articles, books and chapters from books
What are appendices?
Instructions given to RPS, raw data and calculations completed
