SUMMARY
Understanding applied research will enable you to be more effective advocates of programs you are supporting in working or volunteer capacities. Outside of the behavioral health fields, understanding good research methodology can be applied to any industry to help better identify and tell the story of community need and impact of services, while supporting quality improvement efforts.
For this multi-part Research Project, you will identify a research question relevant to the field of psychology, analyze qualitative and quantitative methodology, and write an executive summary that proposes the research plan.
Each assignment builds off the others, walking you through each step of the research process. The research you read will provide the strongest examples of each assignment type. The focus of each assignment is application of the principles learned this class, not recitation of facts or even other research points.
APA style must be used on all assignments. Be sure to avoid even unintentional plagiarism. At the same time, you may re-use some of what you wrote in each section for later assignments, if applicable.
Be sure to adapt them to the specific requirements of the assignment and to edit based on instructor feedback.
Note: Please review the previous students’ papers as these assignments are often a new approach for many. These sample papers will help guide your work. No paper is perfect, and not all of them met all requirements or were formatted properly, but the basic structure and content should give a better idea of what is expected. The students’ names have been redacted for privacy.
Select a research topic either selected from the list below, or a topic relevant to your profession/interest. Potential research topics include:
Gender and Psychological Reaction to Specific Noise
Gender and Singer Preference
Gum Chewing and Concentration on Simple Cognitive Tasks
Influence of Positive and Negative Ads
Reaction to Violated Social Norms
Social Networking and “real life” interaction g. Learning and Color Experiment
Information and Short-term Memory
Personality and Musical Preference
Gender and Short-term Memory
Review at least six scholarly literature related to your potential research topic. Include a list of the six research articles reviewed in APA format as part of your submission.
Select 3 of the scholarly works you reviewed and write an annotated bibliography for each that informs the key points of the potential research topic. Summarize each piece of literature by addressing the following
Author information
Who is the author? What is her/his background? Is the author qualified to write this document?
Author’s purpose
What is the author’s purpose in writing this literature or doing this research?
Author bias
Does the author show any biases or make assumptions upon which the rationale of the literature rests? If so, what are they?
Methodology
What methods did the author use to obtain the data?
Author conclusion
What conclusions does the author draw? Are these conclusions specifically stated or implied?
Assessment of conclusions
Are the conclusions justified from the research or experience?
Are the conclusions in sync with the original purpose of the research and supported by the data?
Are the conclusions skewed by bias?
Assessment of the literature’s quality and relevancy to the potential research topic
Is the work current? ○ Does it conflict with conventional wisdom, established scholarship, government policy, etc.?
How is the literature relevant to the potential research topic? Explain.
REQUIREMENTS
Citation Requirements: minimum of 6
Word Count: 1,000-1,500
Plagiarism Submission
