Psychology essay 3 pages

Hello. You need to follow the instructions in order to write that essay. You also need to read some of the articles that mention in word file. 

Writing Assignment Two

The goal for Research Assignment 2 (RA2) is: A) for you to become familiar with using the Psychology Database to find relevant research articles, B) to be able to read and report on the findings of the research article in a short paper and, C) to be able to accomplish the written report using APA style.

Step One: Find two articles that address a psychology question that is meaningful to you, using the Psychology database provided by the library in pdf format and print it.

a.

Go to our class site and click on the Indiana state university library button

b. Then select electronic resources under the Student tab

c. Then select psychology in the blue drop down box and search for databases that contain psychology articles.

d. Then choose “PsychArticles” as the data base.

e. In the EBSCO window you can type in three different search terms.

f. Type in a keyword in the top window and then click the search key. It will probably find more than a 1000 articles – You don’t want to look through 1000 articles – so you need to refine your search by using other keywords in conjunction with each other.

g. This process of trying many keywords may take some time for you to identify one article that will help you answer your question and you may have to refine your question depending on the articles that the database retrieves.

h. Once you have found a good article, download the pdf of the article, print it, and read the relevant parts. (Note – I don’t expect you to understand and report everything the authors did. Often articles include multiple experiments. Our goal is not to reproduce that article – but rather for you to understand enough of it to answer your research question.

Step Two: Read the articles and grasp the important concepts, questions, methodology and results.

Step Three: Using your OWN words create a 3 page word document that tells me what you found and how you answered your research question. You need to include:

1) brief description of the research question

2) brief description of the experiment and methodology

3) what were the results – present the results (use the means of the groups or the correlation coefficients)

4) what do the results mean?

5) Include a reference section (in APA style) for the articles. This reference section should only contain the two sources you used. (It may also contain other sources you used if you used other sources as well.)

Step Four: submit this 5 page document (cover page, three pages of text, and a reference page) electronically through our class site. Use the Turnitin link called Research Assignment 2 under the Course Document Button (In the Folder labeled Research Assignment 2).