Duration of short-term memory

Project description

I’m charged to do Internal Assessment in psychology for IB program. I had to chose original study and than replicate it with my own study (which I haven’t done and I

need you to imagine a study that replicates the original one. Imagine that you did a study and collected data). Study that I chose is Peterson and Peterson duration of

short-term memory. In IB internal assessment there is instructions and “my” psychology IA needs to follow it. There needs to be included: intorduction, hypothesis,

design, participants, materials, procedure, results. The internal assessment (IA) in IB programme psychology is a replication of a simple experiment. For all

candidates the first step is to choose an experiment to replicate. ( My chosen experiment is Peterson and Peterson). The success of your own experiment is to a large

extent dependent on finding an appropriate study for your research. It is essential that your research be based on an experiment that has been published. You must

manipulate only one independent variable. You should measure only one dependent variable. Experiment must meet ethical standards. In introduction focus only on the

study that is being replicated. Explain the study – that is, state the aim, procedure, findings, and conclusions of the original study. You will need this to make

comparisons of your results to this study in the discussion. after explaining the original experiment, you should state why you think the study is worth replicating.

what value does this research have in our understanding of human behavior? you should finalize your introduction by clearly stating the aim of your research. The aim

should be a clear statement of what you are going to study. For example: Aim: to investigate the effects of particular adjectives on the formation of impressions.

Research and null hypothesis: in experimental research, psychologists first must state what they predict will happen. (you can also state a null and a research

hypothesis). Design: identify the design you have used- either independent samples or repeated measures. Explain and justify why you chose the design that you did and

describe the controls you have undertaken to avoid extraneous variables. Identify the independent and dependent variables. Document how ethical guidelines were

followed – explain how consent was obtained and how the briefing and debriefing were carried out. In design section include participants. The participants section of

the IA describes the sample and how it was obtained. A sample of 20 participants is sufficient. larger samples are strongly discouraged in an IA experiment. Sampling

procedures should be identified and justified. The sampling method ( random, opportunity) must be identified, and you must explain why this sampling method was chosen.

Materials: This section is a list of materials developed for use in the experiment. Basic materials such as tables, chairs, papers, and pencils should not be listed.

Any written materials that were specially developed for the experiment should be listed and referenced to a sample copy included in an appendix. Procedure: you must

carefully and accurately describe how the experiment was carried out, step by step. Enough detail should be provided so that another researcher could replicate the

experiment. It must include reference to any ethical issues that were addressed – for example, when briefing and debriefing were carried out. Results: the results

should be stated in a narrative form and in a graphic form.The reader should be able to understand the results by only reading the text or only looking at the graph

and table. The data should be reported in a way that reflects the aim of the research hypothesis. The data collected in research can represent different levels of

detail. The difference in the levels of information that can be carried by numbers is referred to as levels of measurement of the data. There are four levels of

measurement: nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio. Discussion section: the discussion is teh final part of the paper. This is an important part of your report. In this

section, you interpret your own results in the light of previous research. You must relate your findings to each of the theories or studies referred to in the

introduction, and say how your results differed and where they were in line with the study you replicated. Then you need to say why you think you achieved the results

you did. Abstract: The abstract contains a summary of important information about the study. It clearly states the aim, procedure, results, and conclusion. The

independent and dependent variables are identified. The abstract should be the last section of the report to be written and should contain fewer than 200 words.

References: include a complete set of references to all the works cited in the study. Appendices: include blank copies of any supplementary information, as well as the

materials used, such as standardized instructions, debriefing notes, informed consent letters, and calculations. So everything I wrote so far is from the psychology

book with IA instructions. So I need to have abstract first than introduction, method (design), results, discussion. If you need more information you can look for IB

psychology IA examples (google) it will be more easier to write after my IA.