Physical order produces healthy choices

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PSY 321: Article Analysis 1

This assignment aim to help gain experience with analyzing APA journal articles reporting on original research.You will also need to be familiar with this article as one of your options for your group project.

This assignment will be turned in online to a dropboxin your lab's Canvas page.

Article: Physical Order Produces Healthy Choices, Generosity, and Conventionality, Whereas Disorder Produced Creativity (Vohs, Redden, &Rahinel, 2013).

Please write your answers to the questions below in your notes. Keep these for your reference as quiz 3 will include questions based on this assignment.

Introduction:

1. What is the topic of interest or the general question under investigation? (Hint: involves order and disorder)

2. BRIEFLY describe what past research suggested about the topic of interest.

3. What is the "broad conclusion" from the fields of sociology and psychology about the effects of orderly vs. disorderly environments?

4. What is the goal of the present study? In other words, what new information are they hoping to contribute to the literature with their research?

Experiment 1:

5. What was being tested in experiment 1?

6. What specifically were they predicting for experiment 1?

7. On what past research findings did they base their predictions for experiment 1?

Method

8. Characteristics (i.e., demographics (age, gender, etc.) of participants?

9. What was the independent variable (IV) in experiment 1?

10. What were the levels of the IV?

11. List at least two ways in which the researchers tried to ensure internal validity. In other words, what were two things done in the study to help ensure that everything was the same between groups except for the different levels of the IV?

12. What were the two dependent variables in experiment 1?

Results and Discussion*

13. Do the results support the researchers' predictions?

14. What conclusions do the researchers make based on the results of experiment 1?

Experiment 2:

15. What was being tested in experiment 2?

16. What are the researchers' predictions for experiment 2?

17. On what findings from past research did they base their predictions for experiment 2?

18. What improvement was made in experiment 2 from experiment 1?

Method

19. Characteristics (i.e., demographics (age, gender, etc.) of participants?

20. What was the independent variable (IV) in experiment 2?

21. What were the levels of the IV?

22. What was the dependent variable (DV)?

23. What were the three different ways in which "creativity" was operationalized in this study?

Results*

24. Do the results support the researchers' predictions for experiment 2?

Discussion

25. What conclusions do the researchers make about disorderly environments based on experiment 2? What is their "preferred" explanation for the results of their study?

We will come back to the rest of the article (experiment 3 and the overall discussion section) in lab.

Reference no: EM133191000

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