A psychology reading worksheet needs to be completed. There are 18 questions in the worksheet and the reading material will be provided.
Assignment 1: Structured Review of Empirical SResearch
Deadline: Assignment 1 Due on Blackboard at 11:59pm on 5/28
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Grading: This assignment is worth a total of 35 points.
Directions:
One of the goals of this course is to teach you how to critically evaluate psychological research.
To help accomplish this goal, for this assignment, you will be asked to read an empirical paper
from a social psychology journal and answer the questions outlined below about the paper.
You must choose an article from the list of options provided at the end of these instructions
(citations are provided). If you choose an article that is not on the list, you will receive 0
credit and will not be given an opportunity to redo your work. To assist in this process all
of the potential articles will be posted to Blackboard.
Please type your answers to each question. Responses must be in your own words – do not
copy/paste things from your article or quote what the researchers say. Signs of plagiarism
will be investigated and reported to the Office of Academic Integrity when needed.
Note: If you feel that any question is NOT answered in the article, please state that and why that
might be a problem.
Questions:
Introduction Questions
You should find a description of the study’s aim/purpose in the introduction section of your
article. You should find a description of the study’s hypotheses in the introduction section of
your article. Often, but not always, there is a separate section in the article labeled “expectations”
or “hypotheses”.
1. Describe what this research overall is about. (2 points)
2. State the primary hypothesis or research question. What did the researchers expect to find?
(1 point)
Study 1
Participants Questions
Most typically this information is in the procedure or methods section of the article. Sometimes
there is a sub-section called participants. N=number of participants.
3. Who participated in the study, and how many participants were used? (1 point)
4. How did they recruit participants? (1 point)
Research Design Questions
You should find a description of the research design in the procedure and/or methods sections of
the article. As discussed in the lecture and in the text, true experiments involve random
assignment to conditions or groups; correlational studies investigate associations between
variables. See your lecture notes for the advantages/disadvantages of designs, a description of
independent versus dependent variables, and operational definitions. Sometimes in research
articles independent variables are called ‘manipulations’ and dependent measures are called
‘outcome variables’.
5. Did the researchers use an experiment or a correlational design to test the primary
hypothesis? (1 point)
6. Describe one advantage of this research design. (1 point)
7. Describe one limitation of this research design. (1 point)
8. If the researchers used an experimental design, what were the primary independent and
dependent variables? If a correlational design was used, what variables were measured? (2
points)
9. Describe how the researchers operationalized each primary variable. In other words, how did
the researchers measure each variable? (2 points)
Results/Discussion Questions
You will find this information in the results/discussion sections of the article.
10. What did the researchers find? Briefly summarize the main results in your own words. (2
points)
Study 2
Participants Questions
11. Who participated in the study, and how many participants were used? (1 point)
Research Design Questions
12. What did the researchers do differently in Study 2 from Study 1? (2 points)
13. Did the researchers use an experiment or a correlational design to test the primary
hypothesis? (1 point)
14. If the researchers used an experimental design, what were the primary independent and
dependent variables? If a correlational design was used, what variables were measured? (2
points)
15. Describe how the researchers operationalized each primary variable. In other words, how did
the researchers measure each variable? (2 points)
Results/Discussion Questions
16. What did the researchers find? Briefly summarize the main results in your own words. (2
points)
Overall Question
17. Did their results match their predictions? Explain. (2 points)
18. What did you personally learn from this article. (3 points)
Citation: Citation can be copied and pasted from below. Also, if multiple studies were
discussed in the paper, then you should specifically state which study you examined (i.e. Study
2) (2 pts)
Formatting and Grammar: Up to 4 pts
List of articles you can choose to read and evaluate
Aldan, P., & Dunham, Y. (2023). People take similarity of group markers to imply similarity of
group members. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 108.
Koetke, J., Schumann, K., Porter, T., & Smilo-Morgan, I. (2023). Fallibility salience increases
intellectual humility: Implications for people’s willingness to investigate political
misinformation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49(5), 806-820.
Perrin, A. L., Jury, M., & Desombre, C. (2021). Are teachers’ personal values related to their
attitudes toward inclusive education? A correlational study. Social Psychology of
Education, 24(4), 1085-1104.
Schell‐Leugers, J. M., Schneider, T., Gyenis, R., Leuker, C., & Sauerland, M. (2021). Will you
confess to what I did? Close relationships and in‐group membership facilitate voluntary
blame‐taking. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 51(10), 987-998.
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