Take-Home Examination 2024– Psyc 2111
*The paper is about 60% done, however, I have way too much on my plate right now. The first half is the file titled ″HALF DONE″
*I have already completed basically the same assignment on a different topic earlier in the year. I uploaded the papers and my prof′s grading rubric for reference.
The file with a password is: 0225312
A closer look at the intellectual curiosity facet of openness to experience and how it
relates to emoji use
Your take-home exam is a research paper on the topic listed above. See the last page for more
context on the fictional study. You will analyze the fictional data in JASP and then work
backwards and write a research paper including the following:
Title page
Introduction
Methodology
Results
Discussion
References
APA style Table
Appendices
The main body of the paper should be 15-15.5 double-spaced pages (from the first page of the
introduction to the end of the discussion). In addition to these pages, you will have a title page, a
reference section, and relevant appendices. Follow the general writing style guidelines and APA
format discussed throughout the term. Everything is double-spaced. Each section of this paper is
discussed below, in the order in which they appear. Since you will be working backwards to
describe how you think the psychologist carried out the study, you will use the past-tense when
writing your paper.
Title page – Follow the same format discussed for the Introduction you wrote earlier this term.
Introduction – Follow the guidelines that were given for your research proposal Introduction
papers that you submitted earlier this term. This time you are given the research question upfront
rather than having to propose your own question. You will need to work backwards this time, by
explaining how earlier studies led to the research question at hand. Be sure to read the relevant
literature carefully before you begin writing the Introduction. The Introduction should be seven
pages long and you should include the seven peer-reviewed empirical journal articles you
obtained in the March 20 Take-home exam preparation literature search workshop. To help you
get a head start I posted three relevant articles for the topic on moodle. During the literature
search workshop/activity 5 workshop, you completed your literature searches for the remaining
four papers with Psych Info. All those who attended the workshop used their time effectively and
found the remaining four articles to read and use in your Introduction. You also would have
gained one point for participating in this workshop. Now that you have your articles, I strongly
recommend that you start reading them right away. While it is up to you to manage your time
wisely and work independently on the take-home exam, I recommend organizing your thoughts
by writing very brief summaries and constructive criticism for each article. To do this, you could
follow the same format you used in Activity 3. You will not hand in these notes, but you may
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find that they help you prepare to write the Introduction. After you read the seven relevant
papers, please integrate the research from them effectively and frame the literature review to set
up your research question. Be sure to explain criticisms of past studies that you will address in
your study. At the end of your Introduction, you should have a section on the current study
where you explain how your study will add to the field. At the end of this section, you will
clearly state the research question.
Methodology – Follow the guidelines that were given in class with respect to content and form
for the methodology paper you wrote for your research proposal. The topic for your take-home
exam is different, but the same guidelines apply when writing up this methodology. Explain
who your participants are and how you would recruit them. Use measures and procedures that
are appropriate for the research question at hand and explain them thoroughly. You will need to
consult the literature carefully before you choose your measures, and you may want to create
new measures or modify old ones. A strong method section will contain details about the stimuli
and provide many examples. This information can go in an appendix. Keep in mind that you will
have an independent variable and a dependent variable and each one will have its own measure.
When you consult the literature, you will notice that not all papers you read will measure the
intellectual curiosity facet of openness to new experience and emoji use in the same way. You
should gain a solid understanding of what has been done well and any changes that could be
made to improve methodology before you decide what measure you will use. The fictional data
that was collected to measure the number of emojis used is entered in the take-home exam
database posted to moodle. When writing your method, it is up to you to make an informed
decision on how the number of emojis was collected. You will also need to consult the literature
to find a reliable way to measure intellectual curiosity and explain how you will sort people into
high and low groups based on this measure. The fictional data only contains data for an IV and
DV and this is the only data you will use to write up your results section and table of results. It is
up to you to decide if it is a good idea to measure and control for extraneous variables as part of
your methodology. If you decide to do this, include those measures in the method section and
explain how you are controlling for them. For example, explain whether a certain score was
needed on a measure to participate, whether you make sure participants are matched with similar
scores on a certain measure, or whether you have exclusionary criteria based on measurements.
This method section should be approximately three-four pages long (not including the
Appendices). The methodology begins directly after the Introduction; do not begin a new page.
Results You will use JASP and analyze the data and interpret the results before writing them up.
It will not take you long to analyze the data if you plan ahead and you review your notes from
the Take-home exam preparation data analysis workshops using JASP on March 25 and 27. First,
you want to download the excel csv file from moodle that is called “JASP data takehome exam”
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Save the file on your computer. Next, open JASP and open the database file you saved. Next you
should read the desсrіption of the fictional study below and re-read the practice files on examples
1-4. Decide what type of design the take-home fictional study is (i.e. between-subjects or within-
subjects). Next decide which t-test is appropriate to analyze the data. It will either be an
independent t-test or a dependent/paired t-test, but not both). Then, analyze the data with the
correct t-test in JASP, just like you did with the practice examples 1-4. You should get tables of
results on the right-hand side of your computer. You will need to either save this as a JASP file
or copy and paste it into a word document. You will use this information to interpret the results
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of the t-test so you can write up the results section and create an APA style table. After you
interpret the results from JASP, write up the results section. Please refer to the appropriate
examples (1 through 4 from the JASP workshops) for how to write up the results section
properly. Follow the same format and APA rules and make sure you have all the same type of
information. The variable names and numbers will be different, but the structure should be the
same as the examples. You will need to know how interpret the JASP t-test results to indicate
whether the group difference is significant. As in the four examples posted on moodle, the
results section will be a single paragraph which takes up roughly one quarter of a page. The
results section begins directly after the methodology; do not begin a new page. You can begin
writing the discussion section directly below the results.
Discussion –This is the section that you will write last. This is your chance to interpret your
results and put them in perspective by making contact with any relevant theories and previous
studies. You should begin by restating your research question and summarizing your results.
Next, you should carefully interpret your results. Refer to guidelines discussed in class on April
3. Think carefully about the interpretation of significant versus non-significant results. If your t-
test is significant, what does this mean? Why are there differences between groups (or repeated
measurements) and why is this interesting? How do your results comply with results obtained
from other studies? Discuss any similarities and any differences. When differences occur
between your study’s results and results from other studies, provide some thought on some
potential explanations. You will need to make contact with the previous literature in this section
and engage in thoughtful theoretical discussion. Were there any weaknesses in the methodology
that may place some limitation on the interpretations that can be made? It is also important to
discuss future directions, or ideas for related designs or research questions that should be
addressed through empirical research. In the discussion, you will need to show that you have
thought deeply and critically about the study. While it is important to explain any relevant
limitations of the study, you should also think of the discussion as a chance to defend your study.
You will need to explain what it adds to the literature and why it is valuable. Like the
Introduction, the Discussion should also be well organized and have a nice flow. One paragraph
should lead well into the next one. Each paragraph should serve a major point. Paragraphs should
be at least four-five sentences, and no longer than one page. The discussion section begins
directly after the results section; do not begin a new page. I expect the discussion section to be
five pages long.
References – This section is very straightforward. Follow the guidelines discussed throughout the
term and provide references for all papers and tests you have cited in the paper. The Reference
section goes on its own page (even if there is room after the last sentence in the results section).
You should have seven peer reviewed empirical journal articles (including the three articles I
posted and the four you found during workshop 5 on March 20). Any measures or tests that have
been developed by others should be cited as well and these are not counted as part of the seven
empirical articles; they are additional sources to cite.
Table – Using examples 1-4 from the Take-Home Exam Preparation Data Analysis Workshops I
covered in class as a guide, create an APA style table to report the means and standard deviations
for prosocial risky behavior scores for each group. The table will be on its own page in between
the references and the appendix.
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Appendices – These describe your measures in more detail. If you are using an intellectual
curiosity measure that was created by authors, cite it and provide as much information as you
can. If the entire test or scale is available free, include it in the appendix. If not, provide as many
example questions as you can. If you are creating your own new measure of intellectual
curiosity, provide example questions and how participants will provide a numeric response to
each question. You can decide if you want to also include an appendix for how you measure
emoji use and one for any extraneous variables you wish to measure and control. In the body of
your methodology, make a note under each measure indicating that the items can be found in the
Appendix. The first measure you write will be given the title of Appendix A and the second one
will be Appendix B. Each Appendix will begin on a new page.
You will be graded on the quality of the following:
Introduction – 25%
-refer to the same guidelines from your Introduction proposal paper
Method and relevant appendices – 25%
-refer to the same guidelines from your Method proposal paper
Results and APA style table – 10%
-refer to Take-home exam preparation workshops on what to include and how to report
Discussion – 20%
-refer to April 3 class on what to include
APA format, including references, title page and rules throughout the body of the paper– 10%
-refer to guidelines posted and presented in class throughout the term
Spelling, Grammar, Paragraph Formation, Writing style – 10%.
-refer to guidelines posted and presented in class throughout the term)
You must write up this paper independently. Plagiarism is a serious offense and will result in
a grade of zero on this exam. All consequences of plagiarism outlined in CBU’s Academic
Integrity Policy will be followed. Introduction – Academic Integrity Handbook (pressbooks.pub)
Context of the fictional study
There is an ongoing interest in how the big five personality traits relate to emoji use
during communication (e.g., Kennison et al., 2024; Marengo et al., 2017). The effect of openness
to experience on emjoi use is unclear. One study found no significant relationship between
openness to experience and emoji use (Marengo et al., 2017) but another one found a significant
negative relationship between the two, such that high scores on openness were associated with
low scores on the number of emojis used (Kennison et al., 2024). As noted by Kennison et al.
(2024) openness to experience includes multiple facets that should be examined more closely in
future studies. The current study will focus on the intellectual curiosity facet to examine if it is
significantly related to emoji use. The data can be found in the excel csv database file called
“JASP data takehome exam”. The scores are the number of emojis participants used.
Participants’ intellectual curiosity scores were measured with an appropriate test and the
psychologist put people into one of two groups based on their scores: the high intellectual
curiosity group (n ＝ 25) or the low intellectual curiosity group (n ＝ 25). She examined whether
there were significant differences across these groups on the number of emojis that were used.
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Think like a scientist and describe how you think she would have set up the study. Open up the
excel csv database in JASP. After you determine what design this study followed, decide which
of the two t-tests we covered are appropriate to analyze the data in JASP. Then, analyze the data
with the correct t-test. Save the results in a word document. You will need to interpret the JASP
results to write up the results section and create a table. Write a research paper that includes the
subsections indicated on page one of the Take-Home Exam instructions to address this research
question.
Storing files: You are responsible for saving all your work in multiple locations including your
computer, your cbu onedrive/email attachment, and a usb key. You should download and save
your articles, your JASP output results copied into a word document, and your take-home exam
word document in at least two of these three locations. You will work on your take-home exam
document over 26 days, and each time you work on this document, save it in these multiple
locations. I recommend saving the word document in multiple locations after every hour work.
Doing this will save you time if you have computer malfunctions or temporary internet glitches.
Writing Centre: Since this is an exam, assistance from the Writing Centre is limited to the
following:
1) guidance on understanding the assignment instructions/steps to complete and how to
go about completing them.
2) guidance and feedback on writing style, grammar, spelling, and formatting.
However, feedback on the content of the material is not permitted.
*It is your responsibility to manage your time and seek assistance in a timely manner. Extensions
will not be given if you cannot get an appointment with the Writing Centre before the deadline.
Tips on where to begin: 1) Read the papers, beginning with the three I posted on Moodle on
March 20 and then the remaining four that you found; 2) Analyze the data, interpret it, and write
up the short results section and create the table; 3) Write the Introduction; 4) Write up the
method and appendices; 5) Write the discussion; 6) Complete the reference section, 7) Complete
the title page, 8) Edit for content, form, and style; 9) Upload your paper no later than 4pm on
April 20.
*It is very important to begin now and it is your responsibility to manage your time wisely.
Questions about the takehome exam should be asked no later than 4pm the day before the
due date in order to get a response before the exam is due
