Analyzing Research
Post your answers to this discussion by 11:59 pm CST on Friday of this week, your main post should have at least 200 words or more and include a citation of at least one scholarly source. You should respond to at least two classmate’s posting by 11:59 pm CST on Sunday, with at least 75 words or more.
Step 1: Visit the Public Library of Science (PLOS One) website:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/browse/psychology
(a peer-reviewed journal that freely publishes research articles with open licenses). Do a search for an article that interests you, then answer the following:
1. What is the hyperlink to the study you chose?
2. What is the title of the study, and who conducted the research?
3. Describe the study in a few sentences in your own words.
4. Identify and describe either the basic assumption of the researchers, or if it was an experiment, the hypothesis. Why were they conducting this research?
5. How was the study performed? What methods were used?
6. What were the results and conclusions of this study?
7. What questions do you still have after reading about this study? For example, if you were to conduct another study based off of this study, what questions would you ask and what would you still want to find out?
Step 2:
Respond to at least TWO other posts in responses in a paragraph with at least 75 words. Your comments should facilitate a discussion and can highlight your own thoughts about the study
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Analyzing Research
Post your answers to this discussion by 11:59 pm CST on Friday of this week, your main post should have at least 200 words or more and include a citation of at least one scholarly source. You should respond to at least two classmate’s posting by 11:59 pm CST on Sunday, with at least 75 words or more.
Step 1: Visit the Public Library of Science (PLOS One) website: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/browse/psychology (a peer-reviewed journal that freely publishes research articles with open licenses). Do a search for an article that interests you, then answer the following:
1. What is the hyperlink to the study you chose?
2. What is the title of the study, and who conducted the research?
3. Describe the study in a few sentences in your own words.
4. Identify and describe either the basic assumption of the researchers, or if it was an experiment, the hypothesis. Why were they conducting this research?
5. How was the study performed? What methods were used?
6. What were the results and conclusions of this study?
7. What questions do you still have after reading about this study? For example, if you were to conduct another study based off of this study, what questions would you ask and what would you still want to find out?
Step 2:
Respond to at least TWO other posts in responses in a paragraph with at least 75 words. Your comments should facilitate a discussion and can highlight your own thoughts about the study
Psychology in the News
STEP 1: Find a popular news article from within the past 10 years that reports on the results of a psychological study. This should not be a blog entry, but a published article from a news source such as Time Magazine, The New York Times, Newsweek, NPR, CNN, Fox News, etc. A great place to look is the APA’s Psychology news portal:
http://www.apa.org/news/psycport/
. Read through the article and ensure that it is descriptive and sufficiently long enough in order to draw conclusions from the original research mentioned.
STEP 2: Go find the psychological study or studies that are mentioned in the news report. Sometimes those are not freely available online, so you may have to track down the original study through your library’s website. You can find these articles within reputable journals, such as the
American Journal of Psychology
,
Cognitive Psychology
,
Emotion
,
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
,
Journal of Applied Psychology
,
Journal of Counseling Psychology
,
Journal of Educational Psychology
,
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
, and
Memory
. The study should have been performed within the past 10 years.
STEP 3: Write a paper between 250-500 words that
· describes and summarizes both articles
· compares and contrasts the key points, style, and purpose of the news article with that of the research article
· examines if the news article accurately describes the research
· includes correct
APA citations
(both in-text and in a reference page) for both of the articles
Criteria |
Ratings |
Points |
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Finds appropriate news article and writes summary |
Finds a detailed and relevant news article on a psychological topic, and provides a coherent summary of the article. |
Does not provide enough detail in the summary or does not find an appropriate news article |
Poor choice of news article, incomplete summary, or difficult to understand. |
__/5 |
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Finds appropriate research article and writes summary |
Finds a detailed and relevant peer-reviewed article on a psychological topic, and provides a coherent summary of the article. |
Does not provide enough detail in the summary or does not find an appropriate journal article |
Poor choice of research article, incomplete summary, or difficult to understand. |
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Compares and contrasts the news and research article and examines accuracy of the news article |
Compares and contrasts the key points, style, and purpose of the news article with that of the research article |
Does not fully compare and contrast the key points, style, and purpose of the news article with that of the research article |
Does not compare and contrast the key points, style, and purpose of the news article with that of the research article |
__/15 |
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Includes correct APA citations |
Provides accurate in-text citations AND a reference page for the articles used |
Does not fully provide accurate in-text citations AND a reference page for the articles used |
Does not provide accurate in-text citations AND a reference page for the articles used |
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Total: |
__/30 |