Psychology Question
This major project paper is intended to demonstrate your understanding of basic research methodology. For this paper, you will submit a research scenario for your research question and hypothesis. Use the work you have been working on throughout this class and select the BEST method to test your research ideas. You should adopt some kind of true experiment or some kind of non-experimental or quasi-experimental design. Unless you clear it with your professor first, purely correlational or descriptive research designs are not appropriate for this paper.
This assignment requires you to develop your research proposal for an empirical investigation of a psychological topic of interest to you. This proposal will outline a study you would like to conduct and it will follow the expectations for the content and format of an APA-style research manuscript. In this paper you will include a literature review (your own synthesis of prior research and theory that forms the rationale for your proposed study); a statement of hypotheses (pose specific research questions and predict what the nature of the relationship would be among the variables you are proposing to study); a complete method section (e.g., participants, sampling methods, experimental design, procedures, measures/instruments, etc.); a statement of your expected results; and discussion of possible limitations of your proposed study.
The content and format of your paper will mimic the structure and content of a research article published in a peer-reviewed scientific article. It should follow the general guidelines in your syllabus regarding Psychology Research Papers (APA format and Keiser cover page, 15-20 pages, at least 10 peer-reviewed academic journal articles) and is due for submission by the end of Sunday, Week 7.
Please refer to the rubric relevant to your maj