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“Some preliminaries (page 17) Moreover, like the storytellers of old, although you will invariably be telling your story to someone who knows quite a bit about it already, you are expected to present it as if it had never been heard before, spelling out the details and assuming little knowledge of the area on the part of your audience.”

Psychology Experiments

Book:Designing And Reporting Experiments In Psychology

Source: Designing And Reporting Experiments In Psychology

“Some preliminaries (page 18) Title ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION METHOD RESULTS DISCUSSION REFERENCES APPENDICES (if any) Figure 1.2 The sections of the practical report”

Psychology Experiments

Book:Designing And Reporting Experiments In Psychology

Source: Designing And Reporting Experiments In Psychology

“Some preliminaries (page 18) INTRODUCTION What you did Why you did it METHOD How you did it RESULTS What you found (including details of how the data were analyzed) DISCUSSION What you think it shows Figure 1.3 Where the information in Figure 1.1 should appear in the report”

Psychology Experiments

Book:Designing And Reporting Experiments In Psychology

Source: Designing And Reporting Experiments In Psychology

“Some preliminaries (page 18) METHOD -- DESIGN -- SUBJECTS -- APPARATUS and/or MATERIALS -- PROCEDURE Figure 1.4 The sub-sections of the METHOD”

Psychology Experiments

Book:Designing And Reporting Experiments In Psychology

Source: Designing And Reporting Experiments In Psychology

“Some preliminaries (page 22) The first feature is perhaps the one to have suffered most from the recent attacks on the impersonal style of psychological writing. This is the requirement to write in the passive form — that is, to use constructions such as 'an experiment was conducted' and 'it was found that' rather than 'I conducted an experiment' and 'we found that'.”

Psychology Experiments

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“Some preliminaries (page 22) The second feature is definitely not open to disregard. This is the requirement, central to the construction of our INTRODUCTION, to substantiate all factual assertions. A factual assertion is simply anything that could prompt your reader to ask 'who says?'. Anything that could be re-written as 'it was found that' or 'it was argued that' or 'it was claimed that' etc., can be regarded as a factual assertion and requires substantiation. You are expected to tell the reader at least by whom it was found (argued, or claimed) and when. So, if you make a firm statement about any aspect of the psychological universe (however trivial), you must attempt to support it.”

Psychology Experiments

Book:Designing And Reporting Experiments In Psychology

Source: Designing And Reporting Experiments In Psychology

“Some preliminaries (page 25) Above all else, you must learn to develop your arguments logically, and to articulate them clearly. One aspect of this will involve you in defining terms.”

Psychology Experiments

Author:Peter Harris