choosing a topic Psychology Assignment!
choosing a topic Psychology Assignment!
choosing a topic Psychology Assignment!
Goals: The goal of this assignment is to research an interesting topic in psychology and to develop a creative way of researching that topic.
Assignment Overview:
- Think of a topic that interests you in psychology (it can be ANY topic in ANY discipline of psychology)
- Research the existing literature on the topic
- Develop a research plan for investigating a novel question on the topic
- Develop hypotheses about the results you expect to obtain if you were to implement your research proposal
The topic that I told my professor was cyberbullying, or buylling in general.
Assignment Specifics:
- 2-3 pages long
- 1-1 ½ page(s) of literature review; must cite at least TWO scholarly sources (with proper APA-style citations)
- ½ page describing topic and its importance
- ½ – 1 page of methodology (including specifics on sample, procedure, stimuli, measures)
- ½ page of hypotheses (including description of independent and dependent variables)
- Follow APA formatting and style throughout (will be weighted heavily)
How to Choose a Topic:
- Your topic can be from ANY area of psychology (choose something that interests you)
- Your topic can be a direct response to a criticism you provided in your article review
- It can be an attempt to modernize a topic from one of the chapters in the Forty Studies book
- It can be a topic that you’ve learned about in one of your other psychology classes
Grading and evaluation: This assignment is worth 10% of your grade in this course. Your grade will be based on the following:
- Appropriateness of the topic (from ANY discipline of psychology)
- Quality of the literature review
- Appropriateness of the research plan
- Thoroughness of research plan description
- Sensibility of hypothesis(es); description of IV and DV
- APA formatting/citations
- Timeliness of your submission (you will lose 1% of the maximum 10% for every 24-hour period that the assignment is submitted late; papers will not be accepted beyond a week past the due date.
