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1. What is the purpose of the research? According to the article, what background research had been conducted in this area? What are the hypotheses?
2. What type of research method was used (e.g., description of subjects, what materials were used, and procedures). Please do this for two studies (you do not need to do it for every study if there are 3 or more, but try to pick studies you think were important for the overall journal article).
3. Identify the independent variable(s) & dependent variable(s)
4. What were the main results? How do the results of the current studies support and extend the literature reviewed in the introduction?
5. How does the research relate to topics that (a) you've learned in your course OR (b) apply to your everyday life experiences (be specific)?
6. What critiques do you have about the article? Were there any problems with the design of the studies? What do you think they could have done better? Did the researchers address them? (Try to go beyond what the researchers say in the article! Not surprisingly, researchers do not always point out all the flaws in their own research.) What ethical issues did the researchers confront? How did they address them?
7. What experimental question did this article raise for you? That is, if you were going to conduct an experiment on the topic of this article using it as background information, what question would you want to explore? Briefly describe how you would explore your question experimentally. Why would your experiment be important?
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