This week you will begin a two-part lab that serves as your Major Project for this course. Please read through the instructions carefully and post your questions in the Discussion area for this week. One very important aspect of being a Researcher is being able to be meticulous.  This means you must check and double-check your work, especially when working with numbers.  As you know, reporting false information can make an enormous impact in the behavioral and medical sciences and is grounds for serious ethical violations.Last week you were asked to participate in an experiment. That experiment was Phase I for this two Phase experiment. This week, you will complete Phase II and you will begin writing up the methodology and examining the data. 

  • Complete this phase no later than Wednesday so that the data can be assembled for next week's work (a continuation of this week's). 
  • You will need sound capability on your computer for this experiment (headphones are fine) and a room where you typically study, with few distractions.
  • This week you will break down and organize the study that was created and next week you will report the results and their implications.  

Please note: Considering Phase 1 of the experiment completed in Week 5 and Phase 2 of the experiment from Week 6's lab, report the following.Complete the Methodology section for this experiment. Follow the template instructions 
RSM802_Week 6 Lab Instructions (5).docx RSM802_Week 6 Lab Instructions (5).docx – Alternative Formats  exactly. The instructions should NOT be included in your assignment.  Please read all instructions carefully.  You can also use the  Week 6 Lab Blank Template Week 6 Lab Blank Template – Alternative Formats without instructions.Refer to Chapter 16 for help with what to report in the sections included in the template.  
 

RSM802 Week 6 Lab Template

Methodology

Hypothesis

H1

H0

Variables

IV

Type of IV

DV

Type of DV

CV

Type of CV

Design

Participants

Materials

Titles of Measures Go Here in Black

Procedure

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RSM802 Week 6 Lab Instructions

Methodology

IMPORTANT: Follow the template below. The text in blue are instructions and should NOT be included in your assignment. Please read all instructions carefully.

Hypothesis

Write a good Alternative H1 and Null Hypothesis Ho for this experiment below.

H1

H0

Variables

Identify the variables in the spaces below.

IV

Identify the Independent Variable(s) Be concise on what you call the IV (one or two words).

Type of IV

Identify whether the variable is categorical (nominal or ordinal) and identify the categories or if the scale is continuous (ratio or interval scale). If there are more than one IVs, repeat sequence IV, Type of IV.

DV

Identify the Dependent Variable(s). Be concise on what you call the DV (one or two words).

Type of DV

Identify whether the variable is categorical (nominal or ordinal) and identify the categories or if the scale is continuous (ratio or interval scale). If there are more than one DVs, repeat sequence DV, Type of DV.

CV

Identify any possible CoVariate. These must be variables that were collected in the study. Be concise on what you call the CV (one or two words).

Type of CV

Identify whether the variable is categorical (nominal or ordinal) and identify the categories or if the scale is continuous (ratio or interval scale). If there are more than one CVs, repeat sequence CV, Type of CV.

Design

Report the design of this experiment including the factors in a table as seen on page 333.

Below is a list of designs we have learned. Select as many as are applicable and clearly explain why this study fits the designs selected.

Archival Research 

Meta-Analysis

Baseline Design

Mixed Design

Baseline designs: AB, ABA, ABAB, Multifactor, multiple-baseline, single factor 

Mixed Methods Design

Behavioral baseline

Multiple –Baseline Design

Between Subjects Design

Multiple Control Design

Case History

Naturalistic Observation

Changing Criterion Design

Nested Design

Cohort- Sequential Design

Nonequivalent Control Group Design

Content Analysis

Nonparametric Design

Correlational Design

Parametric Design

Cross-Sectional Design

Pretest-Postest Design

Discrete Trials Design

Qualitative Design 

Dynamic Design

Quantitative Design

Equivalent Time Samples Design

Quasi- Experimental Design

Ethnography

Randomized Two-Group Design

Experimental Design 

Single factor/ Factorial etc.  (1×1, 2×2, 2,3 etc.)

Interrupted Time Series Design

Single Subject Design

Longitudinal Design

Solomon Four group Design

Matched-Group Design

Survey Research

Matched-Pairs Design

Time Series Design

 

Within Subjects Design

Participants

Describe the participants, their location, recruitment, and any other descriptions appropriate for a Participant section.

Materials

List and describe the materials used.

Titles of Measures Go Here in Black. Describe the measure used. Address the reliability and validity for each as best as you can, demonstrating a clear understanding for these terms.

Use the following information in red to help with this (do not use this verbatim, paraphrase). Make sure to cover both reliability of the measures as well as all validity of the measures that may apply (face, content, construct, convergent, predictive, discriminant, concurrent). Pay attention to what these tasks measure, not to the tasks themselves as they have found to equally measure the SAME variable (hint- this is the DV). You are NOT comparing the tasks here, they are just different ways of assessing the same variable.

Task 1’s experiment is called Response Time Task A; Task 2’s experiment is called Response Time Task B. Both appear in Phase 1 and Phase 2. Both experiments measure response time by calculating your response time plus 3 seconds for errors. Both Tasks (experiments) have been tested for compatibility and have been found to be equivalent measures of response time despite their differences in appearance. Thus, there is no reason to reassess the methods of gathering response time or differences between these measures. These should be viewed as equal measures of response time. In the (fake) research, Keiser (2017) found the Response Time Task A measure demonstrated high test-retest reliability when administered a month apart on the same group of college students (N = 56) with a correlation of .94. Keiser (2016) found the Response Time Task B measure demonstrated high test-retest reliability when administered a month a part on the same group of college students (N = 74) with a correlation of .95.

Procedure

Describe the procedure for this study in your own words. This should include enough information to be replicated. Make sure to clearly express the manipulation in the study.

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