You have identified your IV and DV in Step 1. Now use the variables to conduct an internet search. You can either use Google Scholar or the College Library to find 2 peer reviewed research articles, primary sources only. By now you know what a primary source is, it is an actual research report of a prior research study that is relevant to your experiment. I posted two videos in the lecture portion of this course that will help you find articles and read them for this assignment.
Summarize the articles you have you found and include the following information: describe the participants (how many, gender break down, age range, anything else that is important), what was done in the experiment, how the hypotheses were tested (or, how the DV was measured), and what the overall results were. Make sure to refer to actual experiments not commentaries or opinions. Do the best you can. Later, you will use this information in the introduction section of your study report.
10 points per study summarized. Point deductions for missing items, unclear writing, sentence fragments.
1. I chose to administer the short-term memory experiment. I will display to the participants a set of pictures for 30 seconds and see how many they can remember accurately.
2. Two people between ages 37-39 (middle aged)
2 people between ages 63-65 (senior adultlthood)
You have identified your IV and DV in Step 1. Now use the variables to conduct a
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