Reference no: EM132569597

Subject - Introduction to psychology

Description

This term paper is going to require some creative thinking and curiousity on your part. As you read the text and the modules, some questions may come to mind.

Questions like "that's Interesting, I wonder If Its still true In the computer age?" or "I wonder how young that starts?', etc. The Intent of this Assignment Is for you to critically think like a Psychologist.

For Instance, suppose a psychologist observes students playing video games on a big-screen TV in a student lounge and notices that the men tend to get higher scores than the women do. She might speculate that this gender difference results from differences in the amount of time that men and women spend playing video games. In other words, her hunch is that„ in general, men het higher scores on video games because they practice more than women dor Such hunches are after' derived from a psychological theory, a general principle Dr set of principles proposed to explain how a number of separate facts are related. In our example, the researcher's hunch seems to be based on a theory that emphasizes The role of experience in shaping behavior, that is. her tli co ry propose that the more experience people have doing s.ornethingr the better they are at it.

Based on her hunch about the cause of gender differences in video game scores. the researcher next comes up with a hypothesis, a specific prediction or research question that can he tested empiricallyl is, with data: If males and females spent equal amounts of time practicing a game, would their scores be equal?

Note that the above Is presented for reasons of example only, and is not for use by students, who are required to come up with their own research topic.

The rest of the paper will be your description of how you might empirically answer your question (refer back to Module 1 to Understand empiricism). You heed to provide a brief literature review of the research that has already been done, in your area of interest, leading up to your research question. You reed to explain why your question worth answering. Then propose one of the research mel_hods you learned about in Text Chapter 1., and On Module 1 (survey, experiment, case study, etc.), and describe how you would go about Trying to answer your question. You do not actually do the research, nor gather data, just describe huww you would do measureable, and ethical manner. Such is a similar process psychologists go through in proposing scientific research.

Use The following headings in your paper: introduction: Using our example, you review a couple of scholarly articles on gender differences and video games, and explain how you came up with your question. Question: Stale your research question. Such should be empirical (able to be measured), as is the research question stated above.

Rationale: Explain why this Is an important question...why is it worth answering? Method; Here you would describe how you would attempt to answer your question. You would pick one of the research methods from page 14 of your text You could do an experiment for example Describe in detail (use -the grading rubric below as your guide) how you would use your chosen research method to answer your question. In our example, you could (design study in which you use the same procedure to teach male. and female students how to play a new video game. Then you allow them 30 minutes to practice it on their own. At the end of The practice session, you tell participants to play the game again. The independent variable is the teaching /practice session, and the dependent variable is the score ob-Wined. Remember, this is a research proposal only, you do not have to actually do the research. conclusion: Summarize and tie everything together.
You should use the following guidelines for this assignment:

Use at least 2 scholarly sources, in addition to your textbook.
Length; approx. 5 pages (excluding cover, and references, pages)

It is a term paper of a psychology.