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Psychology Empirical Article – 1 Page single spaced, 12 pt font. in text citations apa. on the attached article provided. Keep it as simple yet point driven as possible. No fancy terminology needed. Article evaluations should be no longer than 1 page, single-spacedPart I: SummaryIN YOUR OWN WORDS, explain what the paper was about. Specifically, you should address the following:What was the research question? What hypotheses did the authors test? How did they test their hypothesis (that is, what did they do?) What were the results? Be sure to identify the dependent measure(s). What do the authors think their results mean? NOTE: Be sure to focus only on the essential information—you can assume that I have read the paper and know the details. Part II: CritiqueSelect 2 questions below and respond to them. Ideally, your two points will be related to one another. You should justify your responses in terms of what you know and have learned from the article and in this class rather than only opinion or anecdote. Did the authors convince you that their research question is important and that their hypotheses are meaningfully related to their research question? Why or why not?Does the design of the experiment fits logically with the hypotheses the authors want to test? Why or why not? Can you think of any plausible alternative explanations for the findings? That is, might the findings have resulted from some other factor (other than random chance) that the authors failed to control? Explain.What

additional experiment(s) do you think are most important for researchers investigating this topic to conduct next to extend our understanding? Note from Professor: One of your enterprising classmates asked for more information on how to summarize the multiple studies in your third article, so I thought I’d give my answer to all of you to make your lives easier. One reason I assigned this article is that it really represents how science is actually done. The first experiment nails down the basic, important findings but no single experiment can address every single aspect of a phenomenon. Therefore, they did 5 more experiments that replicate Expt 1 with small tweaks to the procedure to address additional questions that Expt 1 did not address. You do NOT need to summarize the procedure for all 6 studies! Describe the procedure for Expt 1. Then you can simply summarize the additional information that studies 2-6 provide about the overall set of phenomena in maybe 2 or 3 sentences. In fact, you don’t even need to wade through all the statistical analyses for expats 2-6. They very nicely summarize what each study addresses in the introduction to each study and they very nicely summarize the results in the final paragraph or two of each results section. Also, a lot of you are still including really minor details like the number of subjects, the exact ages, how they were recruited, etc. That is not necessary!! Really focus only on the essentials–in plain English, what did they do with these kids?