Lab 3

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Lab 3

• Methods Sections
• Participant Requests
• Piloting Your Study

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Tips on Introductions

• Double-space everything!
• Know the difference between affect and effect
• Running heads and page numbers
• Remember requirements for sources
• Check over APA style for citations
• How to focus your intro in a readable manner

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Affect or Effect?

• As a general rule, affect is a verb and effect is
  a noun.
• The exceptions Affect meaning emotion or mood
  is a noun. Effect meaning to cause (Effect
  change) is a verb.
• You will rarely use these exceptions unless your
  study is about emotion. If this is the case, be
  doubly careful!

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Affect or Effect?You tell me.

• We were unable to find an ________.
• We were unsure which variables might ________ our
  dependent measure.
• The ________ was quite small, but did reach
  significance.
• We used three types of pictures that ________ed
  people differentially.

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Tips on Introductions

• Double-space everything!
• Know the difference between affect and effect
• Running heads and page numbers
• Remember requirements for sources
• Check over APA style for citations
• How to focus your intro in a readable manner

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Page Numbers and Running Heads

• Page numbers go in upper right with short version
  of title I.e. The effects of stereotype on
  memory just to the left of them
• RUNNING HEAD Stereotypes and Memory this goes
  flush with the left on the title page right under
  page number and short version of title

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Tips on Introductions

• Double-space everything!
• Running heads and page numbers
• Remember requirements for sources
• Check over APA style for citations
• How to focus your intro in a readable manner

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Tips for intro style

• Start with a broad statement that hooks your
  reader
• Using logical argumentation and prior research,
  lead the reader to your experiment idea
• Leave your experiment idea until the end! But the
  reader should start to get an idea of what it
  will be as they are reading it
• Dont assume that your reader knows what your
  study is lay out the basics in plain language,
  save the details for the methods section

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Tips on Introductions

• Double-space everything!
• Running heads and page numbers
• Remember requirements for sources
• Check over APA style for citations
• How to focus your intro in a readable manner

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Methods

• Should include 3 parts
• Participants include some demographic
  information and how/where subjects were found
• Materials give details! Explain all the
  materials so someone could replicate your study
• Procedure same as materials. You dont have to
  give exact script but describe what the
  participants went through and how
• Due next Tuesday

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Headings (If you need more than three, consult
me or the APA guide)

• First Level
• Second Level Like This
• Third Level Like This

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For example

• Methods
• Participants
• Ten undergraduate students at UCSC.
• Materials
• Pen and paper were used.
• Procedure
• We told them what to do and they did.

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Coming up next week

• A very short presentation of your research
• I mean it, keep it short!
• Explain your hypothesis and how you tested it
• We will then discuss things like IV, DV, how to
  analyze, the best kinds of figures, etc.
• Really, we want it to be short!
• Any number of people from your group can actually
  do the presenting
• Dont stress! It should be under 5 minutes!

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More resources

• http//www.reach.ucf.edu/psy3214a/apa/method.html
  
• http//comp9.psych.cornell.edu/dbem/writing_articl
  e.html
• http//www.vanguard.edu/faculty/ddegelman/index.cf
  m?doc_id796

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For the rest of today

• Pilot your study using yourselves or other groups
  as participants
• Show me any materials I need to see
• Be sure you have
• Consent form
• Debriefing form
• A general plan for tomorrow (script, etc)
• Fill out participant request form (if you plan on
  running many participants outside of class,
  please give us an idea of how many.)