Psy pr1: psychological research methods coursework 2: predicting cognitive failures using hierarchical multiple regression

Participants: relevant demographic information only

Materials: You must give a brief description of the materials you used (tasks, questionnaires, etc.). Include Cronbach’s Alpha for each questionnaire used. Don’t forget to direct the reader to the appendix if you use it.

Design: You need to state the design of your experiment, Predictor variables, Criterion variable.

Procedure: You need to state what the participants were required to do, from first contact to debriefing.



Results Section

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  See the example results section from the SPSS worksheet on Hierarchical Multiple Regression. This should include:
  
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    Verbal descriptions of what analysis were run and what they tell us
    
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      Table of means and SDs.
      
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      Correlation matrix.
      
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      Report the appropriate inferential statistics in tables
      

Discussion Section

Finally, summarise in words what the statistics tell you.

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  What do the results mean
  
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    Do they support your hypotheses? Do they not support your hypotheses?
    
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    Either way, what does this mean in the context of the previous research and theory that you reviewed in your introduction?
    
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  Identify major weaknesses in the study
  
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    And how you would remove them (i.e. improvements)
    
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  Suggest further studies in the same area
  
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    What do you think it would be interesting to look at next in this area? Why? How would you go about it? What do you think you’ll find?
    
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  A brief concluding sentence/paragraph/take-home message