Reference no: EM133577401
Homework: Journal Article Summary
Overview
For each Journal Article Summary, you will choose an article to review and use the Journal Article Summary Template to complete the homework. The article you select must be a peer-reviewed journal article in the field of cognitive psychology. The article must also be a primary source, meaning that the authors are discussing their own research, not others' research (e.g. review articles). Do not use an article that conducted a meta-analysis. It is ideal to select an article that you will be using in your paper; however, this is not a requirement. If you use an article that does not meet these criteria, you will not receive credit for this homework. See the example below for detailed explanation of the required material for each question.
Task
Question I. APA reference of article being reviewed
Question II. What is the research problem that is being investigated? What is the purpose of the research being conducted?
Question III. What is the research question?
Question IV. What are 2 or more theories that are discussed in the Introduction? How are they used to motivate (or set up) the research question? Do the authors agree or disagree with these theories?
Question V. How is the research question operationalized? First, identify the abstract constructs being studied. Next identify the concrete way these are being observed or measured. This should include your IV and DV.
Question VI. What is the research design (i.e. between or within subjects, what type of statistical tests were used, what were the levels of each variable)?
Question VII. Describe the results (but not their broader implications). Were the results significant? Which ones? Do these support or not support the hypothesis?
Question VIII. What limitations are mentioned? Why are these limitations theoretically interesting?