Using Research Paper 1 in the file below. The psychological purpose behind Paper II is to make sure you can tell your reader what you did
in your study, how you did it, and what you found. By now you have read several empirical studies in psychology, and you should be familiar with the Methods, Results, and Discussion sections. Now is your chance to write your own Methods, Results and Discussion!
Like the studies you looked at for Paper I, you will provide information about your participants, materials, and procedure in your Methods section. Your participant section goes first, and it includes descriptive statistics about your sample (means and standard deviations for age as well as percentages for gender and race/ethnicity). Your materials and procedure sections include information about what you did and how you did it. You should write this section for an audience who is unfamiliar with you
r specific study, but assume that they do know research
methods. Thus educate your reader about your materials and procedure, giving enough detail so they could replicate the study. This includes explicitly describing your independent and dependent variables and talking about how you presented those variables to your participants.
My suggestion is to look over the articles that you summarized in Paper I and see how they wrote their Methods. This will give you a good idea regarding the level of depth and detail you need in your own Methods section.
You should include four tables, one
for the demographics information, one for the chi square, one for the first
dependent variable (an ANOVA is required), and one for the second dependent
variable (An ANOVA is preferred, but a t-Test
acceptable as long as it uses a different dependent variable than your first
ANOVA)
Theres an example in the bottom if needed.