COGLAB

For the report, you will write about one of the CogLabs (helpful hint, choose a CogLab that you are confident you understand.) As the instructions indicate, the first part of the paper will just identify certain aspects of the CogLab (research question, hypothesis, IVs, DVs, etc.) The next section of the paper will compare your results with the global results. In this section, you will write a result section that includes your statistics (Means) and the global statistics (Means). You should compare your means to the global means like the high grade example paper. You will also indicate whether your results supported the hypothesis or not; and how your results are similar or dissimilar from the global results.

For the third section, you will find a current article (after 2000) that uses the same procedure as your CogLab, but uses the procedure to test a different hypothesis. You will basically write a page (or page and half) summary of the paper (see the instructions in the files tab for more information.) In the summary, you need to indicate the research idea, the hypothesis, the operational definitions (e.g., IVs, DVs,), the procedure the participants followed (research design), and the results of the study (you do not need to list all the statistical tests, but only the means for the groups and whether the hypothesis was supported). Please paraphrase and do not just plagiarize.

For the fourth section, you will come up with your own novel research idea (research proposal) that could be tested using the procedure from the CogLab. You will indicate your novel (new) research idea, hypothesis, and operational definitions of your variables of interest (IVs and DVs)

Finally, for the final section, you will write about the methodology (research design) you would use to design your novel experiment. Specifically, what are the exact procedure that your participants will follow in your experiment. It is ideal in this section to include concepts from the chapters to receive the highest possible grade. For example, what scale of measurement are you using, what sampling method are you using, what design are you using (i.e, descriptive, correlational, true experiment), and what are potential strengths and weakness of that design. You do not need to include concepts we have not covered yet, but please use some of the concepts we have covered so far in the class for the highest possible grade.