SCHIZOID PERSONALITY DISORDER Essays - Scientific Method

SCHIZOID PERSONALITY DISORDER PSY600 W1/D2D Instructions for the Initial Post Part One: Professional Research Summary You have been approached by your supervisor to create a Professional Research Summary that explains how a masters program in psychology will be beneficial to you in your current position or how it might assist you with a potential future position within the organization. For this assignment, you will evaluate contemporary applications of psychology in professional settings and research a specific area of psychology that is relevant to the work you are currently doing or hope to do in the future. The research will be compiled into a brief summary report, which will include elements of both academic and professional writing. You will practice both types of writing by using academic writing in the creation of the descriptive research portion of the assignment and professional writing skills in the summary portion, which will explain how the research is professionally relevant. Create a Word document for your summary. This document will be attached to your initial discussion post. Include your name and the course number and title at the top of the document. For the research portion of the report, you will choose a general area of interest from the following list of psychology domains that is applicable to your current or future work. 1. Introduction Explain the issue you are examining and why it is significant. Describe the general area to be studied Explain why this area is important to the general area under study (e.g., psychology of language, second language acquisition, teaching methods) 2. Background/Review of the Literature A description of what has already known about this area and short discussion of why the background studies are not sufficient. Summarize what is already known about the field. Include a summary of the basic background information on the topic gleaned from your literature review (you can include information from the book and class, but the bulk should be outside sources) Discuss several critical studies that have already been done in this area(cite according to APA style). Point out why these background studies are insufficient. In other words, what question(s) do they leave unresolved that you would like to study? Choose (at least) one of these questions you might like to pursue yourself. (Make sure you do not choose too many questions) 3. Rationale A description of the questions you are examining and an exploration of the claims. List the specific question(s) that you are exploring. oExplain how these research questions are related to the larger issues raised in the introduction. oDescribe what specific claim, hypothesis, and/or model of psycholinguistics you will evaluate with these questions. Explain what it will show about the psychology of language if your hypothesis is confirmed. Explain what it will suggest about the psychology of language if your hypothesis is disconfirmed. 4. Method and Design A description of how you would go about collecting data and test the questions your are examining. You are not required to come up with a new or original method (though you can try!). Look journal articles to determine what methods are standardly used to assess knowledge of language in your chosen area and adapt one of these for your needs. Method: How would you collect the data and why? Describe the general methodology you choose for your study, in order to test your hypothesis(es). Explain why this method is the best for your purposes. Participants: Who would you test and why? Describe the sample you would test and explain why you have chosen this sample. Include age, and language background and socio-economic information, if relevant to the design. Are there any participants you would exclude? Why, why not? Design: What would the stimuli look like and why? Describe what kinds of manipulations/variations you would make or test for in order to test your hypothesis(es). Describe the factors you would vary if you were presenting a person with stimulus sentences. Explain how varying these factors would allow you to confirm or disconfirm your hypotheses. Explain what significant differences you would need to find to confirm or disconfirm your hypothesis(es). In particular, how could your hypothesis(es) be disconfirmed by your data? Controls: What kinds of factors would you need to control for in your study? Describe what types