Question.3591 - Research Methods Online Assignment 3 Reading Journal Articles Learning Outcomes: ? Learn to scan an empirical journal article for relevant details ? Build your scientific knowledge on your chosen topic ? Gather information to contribute to your research synthesis next week ? Consider and discuss methodologies you might use in your own study Instructions By this point, you should have found at least one Psychological Journal Article on your topic. You will need only one article for this assignment; however, it is recommended that you take what you learn from this assignment and apply it to reading your other articles. To help you organize your thoughts as you read, a Reading Compilation Table, which is available as a PDF in this week’s module in Canvas. You do not need to turn in the Reading Compilation Table, only this paper on Reading Journal Articles. Read an Article Choose one article from those that you have looked up on your topic. Read the abstract to get an overall sense of what the authors did and what they found. Then use different sections of the full-length article to answer the following questions: 1. Provide the full APA style reference for this article here. 2. Introduction. What is the big picture issue/topic that the researchers want to address in this paper? (You usually get a sense of the BIG issues in the first couple of paragraphs.) 3. Introduction. Find one citation in the Introduction section of your article that you think would be useful for you to read for your project, look it up in the Reference List, and write the reference below, APA style. Obtain the article using Google Scholar or the Rowan Library Databases. 4. Introduction (near the end). What were the hypotheses that the researchers developed going into their study? If there are no hypotheses, what are their specific research questions? 5. Method. Who were their participants (their “sample”)? What larger population do they state they were interested in studying? (e.g., all adults; college students; elementary age kids, elephants in India, etc) This may be built into their statement of purpose near the end of the Introduction, or might be near the beginning of Method section. 6. Method. How did they measure the behavior and characteristics of interest? Was it through direct observation? Survey? Other methods? If there is more than one method, list all of them. 7. Method. What were their main variables that they looked at? Name all of the major variables. [Note: A variable is anything that varies, and indicates the topic the researchers were studying. For example, if the study was looking at the relationship between depression and childhood trauma, then the variables are “depression” and something like “frequency/amount of childhood trauma,” depending on how they were measuring the trauma.] 8. Method. Relate it to your study – can you use any of the methods that they used to collect your own data? Specify. 9. Results. Try to ignore the confusing statistical numbers and identify the main findings: for each hypothesis, was it supported by the finding, or not supported by the findings? If there were no hypothesis, what were the findings for each research question? (Findings that are shown in tables can be helpful for understanding.) 10. Results. Can you provide one main statistical finding? It might be a percentage comparison (X% in group A did this and Y% in group B did this behavior) or a mean (M = 1.2 seconds of doing this behavior) and a p-value indicating whether it was statistically significant. You will need a statistic like this for next week’s big activity – research synthesis matrix. 11. Discussion. What were the big takeaways from this study? Was their hypothesis (if they had one) supported or not? Did the findings of the study support previous research or contradict it? 12. Discussion. What suggestions, if any, did the authors make for future research ideas?
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