Learning to Read and Use Psychological Research -50 points

Learning to Read and Use Psychological Research -50 points

Copy the questions below into your own document, answer, save as a word or RTF document and attach in the Learning to Read and Use Research Assignment. Answer in complete, grammatically correct sentences and proofread. This assignment will prepare you to write a summary for the next assignment.

  1. First, watch the “how to” video in the research module in Canvas.  Then, choose an appropriate article in Proquest. While you have the article open in ProQuest, highlight the internet address bar at the top Copy and Paste the URL into the space here:

 

  1. What is the title of your article? What is the title of the journal where your article can be found?

 

  1. In one or two sentences, in your own words, what is the purpose of your article? What is the research question?

 

 

 

  1. Method- How many people are studied in your article?

 

Where did the authors get the people for your study?

 

 

What tests did they give, or what did they do with the people?

 

 

 

  1. What were the results? What did they find from the testing?

 

 

 

 

  1. Why does this matter? How and who does it help? (Should be in the discussion section)

 

 

 

 

  1. In the literature review section of your article at the beginning, there will be information cited from other articles as background. Citations will be made in parentheses using the author’s last names and year. These citations are used to give credit to the correct author for their ideas and work and to avoid plagiarism. Copy and paste one of the in-text citations from your article here:

 

8.       Put your article source information into APA

Follow this example exactly but use your article’s authors (year) title. Journal title. Volume(issue).pages. doi:Bean-Ritter, C., Brant, D. W., & Torchia-Thompson, L. (2013). Effects of anxiety on students’       procrastination of their research papers. Journal of Fake Psychology Example7(2), 73- 92. http://doi.org ds 10: 1012587.3.564Your article’s reference:9.       Is your article a primary source? How do you  know?

 

TaskPointsTotal 50
URL copied from source5
Article title/Journal Title5
Research question/purpose/problem- Why?5
Method- who, when, when, where, and how?5
Results- What did they find?5
Discussion- Why/how does it matter? How can it be used?5
Copy at least one in text citation in APA format5
Reference Page- source in APA format10
Primary Source or not?5