...C8057 (Research Methods in Psychology): Writing Laboratory Reports Writing Lab Reports & APA Format Structure and Content of a Laboratory Report This following provides a brief overview of the structure and content of various elements in a laboratory report, based on APA guidelines. The APA publication manual can be referred to for more detail. The purpose of a lab report is to communicate research in a clear, systematic and standardised way. Primarily, a lab report should communicate the following things: → Why did I bother? Why did I do this experiment and why is it an interesting contribution to science? → How did I do it? How did I carry out this research (this should be detailed enough so that the experiment could be replicated precisely)? → What did I find? What were the results of your study? → So What? What do your findings mean in terms of your hypotheses and what theoretical contribution do they make? IMPORTANT! The advice that we give you in this handout is not inflexible, it is a guide! For example, when we say that the title should be fewer than 15 words, the world will not end if your title is 16 words. So, please use your common sense. In case you don’t have any, the snail of sense will appear to give you some advice. Format There are several sections to a lab report: → Title → Abstract → Introduction → Method o o o o o → Results → Discussion → References → Appendix (Optional) Title Your title should ideally be fewer than 15 words. A good title alerts the reader...
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...C8057 (Research Methods in Psychology): Writing Laboratory Reports Writing Lab Reports & APA Format Structure and Content of a Laboratory Report This following provides a brief overview of the structure and content of various elements in a laboratory report, based on APA guidelines. The APA publication manual can be referred to for more detail. The purpose of a lab report is to communicate research in a clear, systematic and standardised way. Primarily, a lab report should communicate the following things: → Why did I bother? Why did I do this experiment and why is it an interesting contribution to science? → How did I do it? How did I carry out this research (this should be detailed enough so that the experiment could be replicated precisely)? → What did I find? What were the results of your study? → So What? What do your findings mean in terms of your hypotheses and what theoretical contribution do they make? IMPORTANT! The advice that we give you in this handout is not inflexible, it is a guide! For example, when we say that the title should be fewer than 15 words, the world will not end if your title is 16 words. So, please use your common sense. In case you don’t have any, the snail of sense will appear to give you some advice. Format There are several sections to a lab report: → Title → Abstract → Introduction → Method o o o o o → Results → Discussion → References → Appendix (Optional) Title Your title should ideally be fewer than 15 words. A good title alerts the reader...
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...pm to 2:45 pm Phone: (909) 869-4870 (you can leave a message, but e-mail is much faster) E-mail: nrvonglahn@csupomona.edu (best way to contact me) Web: https://blackboard.csupomona.edu/ Course Description: This course is designed to introduce students to the processes humans obtain, maintain, and use information. This course will primary cover cognitive psychology and focus on the information processing theory—the dominant theoretical perspective in the field. Thus, the behaviors humans engage in as they find information in the environment, retain information, retrieve information from memory, process information to meet the demands of the environment, and communicate information will be focused upon. To this end, the following aspects of cognition will be covered: perception, attention, memory, learning, problem solving, reasoning, decision making, language and individual differences in cognition. Text Book: Reisberg, D. (2010). Cognition: Exploring the science of the mind (5th ed.). New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Bundled with Zaps: The Norton Psychology Labs You will need Zaps lab, which will have to be purchased separately if you buy a used book. Learning Assessments: Assessment Weight Midterm 1 30 pts Midterm 2 30 pts Final Exam 30 pts Writing Assignments 5 pts Zaps 5 pts Letter Grades: A = 100-93 A- = 92-90 B+ = 89-87...
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...with many different avenues to choose from, but the avenue we choose is only as good as the way we plan the lesson and the child’s ability to comprehend it. Another notable factor of planning for lessons is the many theories that are available for our use. Because of the fact that children learn and develop at different stages, it is important to evaluate each child and make sure the lessons we are planning to teach is at that child’s level. In order to ensure we have chosen the best pathway for the child’s learning experience it is also important for teachers to make themselves familiar with these theories and discover when and how to use them. One theory I found to be a good resource is Behaviorism which is also known as behavioral psychology; this theory is based on the fact that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning. This conditioning can occur with the interaction of the environment. According to this theory behavior can be studied in a systematic and observable manner regardless of internal mental status (cherry, 2012). The two major types of behaviorism are classical conditioning, and operant conditioning. The classical conditioning theory is based on the act of placing a neutral signal before a naturally occurring reflex. For example you smell coffee and you want to drink a cup. On the other hand operant conditioning is considered instructional conditioning and it incorporates methods of learning through rewards and punishments for one’s behavior. There...
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...Stress and Coping Dr. Anna Abraham REQUIRED READING: 1. Chapter 19 (Pages 481-489, 492-497, 499, 502-503) INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY (9th Edition) – R. Plotnik & Kouyoumdjian LECTURE HANDOUT 1. Appraisal Definition Stress and Appraisal - Primary Appraisal (a) Harm/Loss (negative) (b) Threat (negative) (c) Challenge (positive) - From appraisal to arousal: emotions, stress and arousal levels differ as a function of the kind of stress 2. Physiological Response Fight or Flight response (a) Appraisal (b) Amygdala & Hypothalamus (c) Sympathetic nervous system – arousal o Respiration, Heart Rate, Adrenal glands, muscle tension o Stomach, Liver, Pupils, Hair - Tend and Befriend response (a) Gender Differences - General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) PSY 100 (a) Alarm stage (b) Resistance stage (c) Exhaustion stage Stress and Coping Dr. Anna Abraham 3. Kinds of Stressors Hassles (Gender differences) Major Life events (Adjustment disorder) 4. Situational Stressors Frustration Burnout Violence 5. Conflicts Approach-Approach Avoidance-Avoidance Approach-Avoidance Five Styles of dealing with conflict (avoidance, accommodation, domination, compromise, integration) 6. Positive Stress Eustress Challenge situations 7. Personality and Social Factors Hardiness Locus of control Optimism versus Pessimism Positive Psychology Personality type (Type A, Type B, Type D) Social Support PSY 100 Stress and Coping Dr. Anna Abraham 8. Coping...
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...YORK COLLEGE OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK School of Health and Behavioral Sciences Department of Behavioral Sciences Psychology 102 HKK - Introductory Psychology Fall 2013 ___________________________________________________________________________ Instructor: Cezar Giosan Email address: cgiosan@york.cuny.edu Class time: Friday, 15:00-17:30 Office hours: After class Office Phone: 718-262-2682 Office: 4D06 Personal website: www.giosan.com Room number: 4D02 Course Description: 3 hours, 3 credits; no prerequisite Basic concepts and methods of contemporary psychology emphasizing the biological basis of behavior, learning, cognition, consciousness, development, stress and personality, abnormal behavior, group behavior, and social interaction. Required Text Myers, D. G. (2013). Psychology (10th ed.). New York: Worth. Course Objectives By the end of the semester, each student should be able to: • demonstrate a command of the vocabulary of the discipline; • identify the methods used to investigate human behavior and understand the ways that psychological theories are used to describe, predict, and modify behavior; • distinguish among the major perspectives of human thought and behavior; • recognize the application of the discipline’s theoretical models to every day settings. Course Requirements 1. Students are required to attend all classes and to arrive on time. Attendance is taken at the beginning of the class – 2 points...
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...ASSIGNMENT INFORMATION 1. The Research handout exercise is to help you become familiar with research terms and how to find them in an experiment description. Please learn these terms and how to find them in the descriptions given. This is not a graded assignment however I do expect you to turn it into me this Monday (2/1/16) and be prepared to take an 8 question quiz on it. Feel free to ask me questions before or in the very beginning of class on Monday. 2. The Presentation that you will be doing should be between 5 and 10 minutes in length. The 3 things that you should cover is (a) definition of the subject, (b) how it relates to human psychology, and (3) is there anything we can or need go do to address it? You can pick any subject that you want out of our textbook and from any chapter. The 3 other things that I look for that causes your presentation to excel is imagery, eye contact with the audience, and narrate the presentation instead of reading it. Students in the past have used powerpoint, prezi, poems, charts, songs, hip-hop presentations, etc., to accomplish this assignment. Don’t overthink it because if you just cover those 3 main elements, your 10 minutes will have been used up. 3. The 40 diary entries that are due have 4 different deadlines to be turned in listed in your syllabus. You should submit them in 4 units of 10 diary entries each. You certainly can turn them in ahead of the due dates. You can pick any subject that you want out of the textbook....
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...Investigating age differences effect on emotion detection for the over and under forties using Baron Cohen's “Eyes Test” (Baron-Cohen, Wheelwright & Hill, 2001) Abstract: This research focuses on the area of emotion detection in psychology. Independent variables being tested is the participants’ age [over and under 40 years of age]. Dependent variables being tested is participants’ scores in the eyes test. Participants were picked from a convenience sample with a large sum selected from adults attending Buckingham University Previous research suggests that there is a steady decline in emotion detection from a young age into elderly age. The key prediction is that under 40s will score better on the eyes test revised for adults than the over 40s. Results yielded no difference in emotion detection via the eyes test revised for adults between the over and under 40s. Introduction: Theory of mind, which is the ability to relate independent mental states to self and others to predict and or explain behavior, has long been researched since 1983 by Wimmer and Perner (1983). Since then their methods have been improved and altered in order to better understand theory of mind. Initially Baron–Cohen and colleagues (1985) simplified the test procedure from Wimmer’s (1983) research, then once more in 2001 where issues with data collection, number of items and responses in the test were all addressed. The revised eyes test for adults consisted of each participant identifying the gender...
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...ebook THE GUILFORD PRESS DBT ® Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets Also from Marsha M. Linehan Books for Professionals Cognitive- ehavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder B DBT Skills Training Manual, Second Edition Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents Alec L. Miller, Jill H. Rathus, and Marsha M. Linehan Mindfulness and Acceptance: Expanding the Cognitive- ehavioral Tradition B Edited by Steven C. Hayes, Victoria M. Follette, and Marsha M. Linehan Videos Crisis Survival Skills, Part One: Distracting and Self- oothing S Crisis Survival Skills, Part Two: Improving the Moment and Pros and Cons From Suffering to Freedom: Practicing Reality Acceptance Getting a New Client Connected to DBT (Complete Series) Opposite Action: Changing Emotions You Want to Change This One Moment: Skills for Everyday Mindfulness Treating Borderline Personality Disorder: The Dialectical Approach Understanding Borderline Personality: The Dialectical Approach For more information and for DBT skills updates from the author, see her websites: www.linehaninstitute.org, http://blogs.uw.edu/brtc, and http://faculty.washington.edu/linehan/ DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets ® Second Edition Marsha M. Linehan THE GUILFORD PRESS New York London © 2015 Marsha M. Linehan Published by The Guilford Press A Division of Guilford Publications, Inc. 72 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012 www.guilford.com All rights...
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...Introduction to Psychology: January 12, 2015 3 Main Problems of Psychology 1) Determinism vs. Freewill * The idea that everything that happens has a cause (determinism) versus the belief that behavior is cause by a person’s independent decisions (freewill) 2) The Mind-Brain Problem * The philosophical question of how experience relates to the brain. 3) The Nature-Nurture Issue * “How do differences in behavior relate to differences in heredity and environment?” Intro to Psych: Wednesday, January 14 2015 Three major philosophical issues with psychology: Free Will vs. Determinism - Determinism: Everything that happens has a cause. - Free Will: the belief that behavior is cause by a person’s independent decisions The Mind-Brain Problem - The philosophical question of how experience relates to the brain. - How is brain activity linked with our experienced? - There is a close relationship with brain activity and psychological events - “Do we feel first, or do we think first?” Nature-Nurture Issue - “How do differences in behavior relate to differences in heredity and environment?” Milgram and the shock experiment test Psychiatry - different from psychology in the way that a psychiatrist can prescribe medication and psychologists can not. - branch of the medical field that focuses on the brain and mental disorders **Get to know both of the “What Psychologists Do” handouts from class Quick History of Psychology Early era...
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...Significant Event- Draft Week 4 – Assignment 1.1 PSY 105 My most significant event would have to be the passing of my Uncle. He was 40 years old and died 2 months before my 20th birthday. It was early morning and he had seizures. He was rushed to the hospital and he was on life support for 8 years. His heart was beating for a full 24 hours after his brain had stopped working. The man was a fighter. He was a Software Engineer. He loved what he did and passed that love on to me. He taught me a lot of life lessons and how to be a good women to not only my family but others around me. I would have to say that this event is completely accurate due to me being at the funeral. I was there to help with the funeral and do the setup. It is possible that due to my age that some of the details were left out or even exaggerated more than what happen. It also could be due to the frantic stat that everyone was in I also could have left out some details or exaggerated some of the details. Due to my knowledge of the situation I am pretty accurate. I can tell you everything about the flowers that were on the grave and the color of the tombstone. So to my knowledge and memory I have a pretty accurate encounter with this situation and memory of what happened. Well going from the definition out of the book. “Subjective well-being means the individuals’ global judgments of their own life...
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...Significant Event Michael Smith PSY 105 Dr. Agbasi 11/27/2012 Significant Event My most significant event would have to be the passing of my great grandfather. He was 78 years old and died 2 weeks before my 12th birthday. He was carrying a coffin for another World War 2 veteran when he had a stroke. He was rushed to the hospital and was not on life support for 3 days. His heart was beating for a full 24 hours after his brain and stopped working. The man was a fighter. He was an Army Ranger one of the first. He loved what he did and passed that love of the army on to me. He taught me a lot of life lessons and how to be a good man to not only my family but others around me. He helped raise me due to my mother being 15 years old when she had me in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I would have to say that this event is completely accurate due to me being at the funeral. I was there to help with the funeral and do the setup. It is possible that due to my age that some of the details were left out or even exaggerated more than what happen. It also could be due to the frantic stat that everyone was in I also could have left out some details or exaggerated some of the details. Due to my knowledge of the situation I am pretty accurate. I can tell you everything about the flowers that were on the grave and the color of the tombstone. I can even tell you the exact location that he fell while carrying the coffin to the burial site. I can also show you the plot where the veteran was buried at....
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...1 COM 802: Communication Research II Spring, 2007 - Syllabus Professor: Gwen M. Wittenbaum, Ph.D. Office Location: 559 Communication Arts Bldg. Office Phone: 353-8120 Email: gwittenb@msu.edu Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m., and by appointment Class Meets: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:20 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. in room 474 COM. Required Readings Crano, W. D., & Brewer, M. B. (2002). Principles and methods of social research. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Articles and book chapters are posted on Angel (http://angel.msu.edu) Course Description This course provides in-depth coverage of research design and measurement. As a companion to its precursor, COM 801, this course outlines how to measure constructs of interest and design research to test issues of theoretical importance. Students will learn a variety of research methods, such as experimental and survey designs, laboratory and field research, and methods of studying individuals and groups. The course exposes students to measurement issues (e.g., reliability and validity) and approaches (e.g., self-report measures, behavioral observation and coding). Students will practice evaluating the design and measurement of research articles and reporting their own research. Course Objectives 1. To understand and implement a variety of research designs. 2. To understand and implement a variety of measurement techniques. 3. To practice critical evaluation of research articles. 4. To...
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...PRINCE GEORGE'S COMMUNITY COLLEGE Welcome to Psychology 1010 Fall 2015 (Tu/Th, ________ – ______ p.m. / Marlboro Hall – Rm. #1104) (August 25 – December 3) INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Janet E. Barber Psychological & Sociological Sciences and Human Svcs. OFFICE/HOURS: Marlboro Hall –M1104/2057 (Tu/Th, 3:25p - 4:25p) The best way to contact the professor is by email. By appointment: Online Office hours via Bb IM: Thursdays 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PHONE NUMBERS: Professor: (301) 322-0900 x 4143 Social Sciences Office/Phone No.: Marlboro Hall #2054 (301) 546-0525 EMAIL ADDRESS: BarberAJ@pgcc.edu (24 hour response time) The best way to contact the professor is by email. Note: All credit students (with the exception of Howard Community College students enrolled at Laurel College Center) are required to use Owl Mail for all college communication. Students, please be sure to place PSY1010-LD14, 16 or 17 in the subject line so that your email will not be overlooked, confused with another class section, or mistakenly deleted. Thank you. Monday – Friday your emails and phone messages will be returned within 24 hours. Your weekend...
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...LESSEN THE IMPACT OF DIVORCE Michael Jennings DeVry University Lessen the Impact of Divorce Charlie is 9 years old and lives in a single parent home where the parent works to support the family, where not much time is spent with Charlie, who must figure certain things out on his own. Where does Charlie go after school? If no one is home having Charlie home alone is not a very good option. If siblings or friends are there but, no adult is present during the after school hours, home is still not a very good option. The term “latch-key” kid is one who has their own key to their home and is expected to be home with minimal supervision. Once a child reaches a certain responsible age, being a latch-key kid often makes sense. Charlie must get home safe from school, stay out of trouble, and complete his homework, with little to no adult supervision. After-school activities should be available to Charlie because he may not be responsible enough or his parents may not trust him to be home alone yet. Everyone is affected by the consequences of parental divorce, especially the children involved. In any society, the children are the future. In the United States alone, 40 to 50% of first marriages end in divorce, according to the American Psychological Association. As citizens of the United States, we are all stakeholders of our future and should care about the well-being of all our children, especially those of disadvantaged environments such as parental divorce. Additional resources...
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