Psych IA What to write and where

Introduction Identify your area of study State why your area of study is important and interesting to our world Identify which study you are replicating including authors and year What is the earliest work in this area? Who did it and what did it look like? How is it related to your chosen study? (Author, year) Where did the understanding of your area of study develop next? How did it work off the first work mentioned? How is it related to your chosen study? (Author, year) How was the phenomena you are studying expanded or clarified next? By who? How did that study work? How is it related to your chosen study? (Author, year) Now state briefly, what your study is – what the people you’re replicating did in their study. Be brief. Now state the aim of your study – not the original, but YOUR study Identify your operationalized hypothesis – you must state the expected change in terms of the dependant variable. You must use the phrase - “statistically significant” State the null hypothesis

Method: Design What is your independent variable, what is your dependant variable? Independent samples or repeated measures: why and why not? Demand characteristics: how have you anticipated them and controlled for them State some variables you are going to declare extraneous State some variables you consider confounding – how will you control for these? What kind of data are you going to generate (nominal, ordinal, ratio, interval) why have you selected this method?

Method: participants Identify your sampling technique – justify it Identify your target population –only relevant characteristics Describe your sample participants – only relevant characteristics – age, gender, socio-economic area, etc. make as many analyses as you can that ARE RELEVANT TO THE DEPENDANT VARIABLE Eg. Glasses? Age of driving? Does chores in the home?

Method: procedure Do not list the making of materials, just list the materials under “Materials”. Reference them in the appendix Must be detailed enough for identical replication by another group. Must include how you randomized between groups Must include how you followed ethical guidelines: Did you remind of right of withdrawal? Did you distribute letters of consent and give adequate time for informed consent? Use appendix references

Results: Descriptive State one measure of central tendency – justify why you chose that one (it will usually have to do with your type of data) State one measure of dispersion – justify that one as well State these data points with control compared to experimental groups Embed a chart or graph in this section

Results: Inferential State one measure of statistical significance with the probability of error (P=.05) Justify why you used that measure Use a snipped screenshot of your data results from whatever website you used (cite this in your bibliography)

Discussion State what you found – the descriptive and inferential stats Compare this overtly to the results of the original study you copied – does your work support theirs? State how your data supports or does not support the studies you talked about in the introduction Explain why you think your data may have varied Explain how you would change things if you had to do it again Explain how you would conduct further studies to better understand this phenomenon Make a concluding statement about your results

Abstract Summary of the purpose Summary of the experiment Summary of the findings 200 word limit

Title Page Title Student name and number Psychology HL Date, MM, Year Word count