Psychology Research Proposal & Power Point

Order Description

Write a Research Proposal of 1,000-1,500 words on a topic relevant to the course. To complete the Research Proposal, do the following:

Review the Module 7 (***see below )lecture section on The Results and Discussion Sections in the Research Proposal for a brief overview pertaining to “how to” complete the assignment.

1. Introductory section: Include hypothesis and a review of the literature.

2. Methodology section: Include subsections on Participants, Apparatus/Materials/Instruments, Procedure, and Design.

3. Results section: Include statistic, critical values, degrees of freedom, and alpha level.

4. Discussion section: Include interpretation of results, ethical concerns, limitations of study, and suggestions for future research.

5. Appendices section: Include a minimum of two appendices (either two figures, two tables, or a figure and a table).

6. Include a minimum of two scholarly references

Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

Design a 10-slide PowerPoint presentation (not including title and reference slides) focusing on the Research Proposal: Project Paper (submitted last week). Consider aforementioned elements in the Research Proposal:

1. Introduction/Hypothesis

2. Methodology

3. Results

4. Discussion

5. Appendix

6. A minimum of two scholarly references

While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines.

***The Results and Discussion Sections in the Research Proposal

Since you will not typically be carrying out your research proposal, you may be wondering how you will fill out your results section. There are four items that can be included. 1) Since you created the design for the Method section, you can select the appropriate statistic. 2) You can include the alpha level (of .05). 3) You know how many subjects you need, so df can be calculated. 4) Thus, you can also calculate the critical value needed to reject the null hypothesis.

The Discussion section should explain three aspects: 1) what the results mean, in “everyday” language (practical versus research significance), 2) the strengths and the limitations of the study, and 3) future possibilities for research (Martin, 1977). In addition, for this class’ project, a discussion of ethics is needed (e.g., how ethical issues were dealt with).

Following the body of the paper is the References page; see the American Psychological Association (APA) Manual for the correct format (pp. 49-51). The last two items are Tablesand Figures.The research project must contain one of each (or two tables or two figures). Tables are columns of data (if you do not carry out the project, do not make up data; the table format can still be set up). Figures include pictures, graphs, or drawings.

Conclusion

This lecture discussed how to use inferential statistics. Two inferential tests were examined in detail: the t-test for correlated groups and the one-way analysis of variance test. In the last lecture, tips for drawing appropriate inferences and writing in APA format will be explored.

References

Bluman, A. G. (1998). Elementary statistics (3rd ed.). Boston: WB/McGraw-Hill.

Gravetter, F. J., and Wallnau, L. B. (2008). Essentials of statistics for the behavioral sciences (6th ed.). Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth Publishing Co.

Martin, D. W. (1977). Doing psychology experiments.Monterey, CA: Brooks/Cole.