To prepare you for the Literature Review assignment required for this course, this weeks assignment will introduce you to publications that psychologists use to communicate research findings to one another. Reading and analyzing articles from scientific journals will give you an idea of how psychologists have investigated your topic of interest; specifically how they have narrowed the topic into a research question and created a specific testable hypothesis to address that question. Your goal for this weeks assignment will be to analyze the the 5 journal articles that you have chosen for your literature review assignment and develop some background knowledge of the topic. At the end of your synopsis (for each article), cite in APA style the article. Your synopsis must be saved as a PDF file and submitted to this assignment for grading.
In your written synopsis you must answer all of the follow ing questions. (For each journal article)
1. Research Topic:
What is the author’s general research question? [This will usually be near the beginning of the introduction.]
What is the author’s specific testable hypothesis (prediction)? [This is commonly found at the end of the introduction or the beginning of the study description.]
2. Methods:
Who are the participants in the research study?
What kind of study is this (experiment, correlational)? How was the study conducteed?
What are the main variables (IV and DV) in this study? There may be more than one of each. If it is a correlational study, there may be several variables being observed/measured, but none identified clearly as an IV or a D. If so, simply identify the variables.
3. Analysis/Results:
Highlight the most important results that test the author’s hypothesis.
4. Discussion:
Do the results support the author’s hypothesis? [Look for a simple statement of this near the beginning of the discussion section.]
What is the claim the author makes when discussing the results?
What does the author recommend as the msot interesting or important direction for future research?
What do you think would be the most interesting or important direction for future reserarch?
*** You must answer the 10 bulleted items in 1-4 in your synopsis for credit. Your synopsis must be graded and approved prior to writing your Literature Review assignments that will consists of 5 Journal articles.***
Listing your References in APA style:
General guidelines:
References cited in the text of a research paper must appear in a reference list or Bibliography.
This list proves the information necessary to identify and retrieve each source.
Order: Entries should be arranged in alphabetical order by author’s last names. Sources without authors are arranged alphabetically by title within the same list.
Authors: Write out the last name and initials for all authors of a particular work. Use an ampersand (&) instead of the word “and” when listing multiple authors of a single work. e.g., Smith, J.D. & Jones, M.
Pagination: Use the abbreviation p. or pp. to designate page numbers of articles from periodicals that do not use volume numbers, especially newspapers.
Indentation: the first line of the entry is flush with the left margin, and all subsequent lines are indented 5 to 7 spaces.
Underlings vs Italics; it is appropriate to use italics instead of underling for titles of books and journals.
Use these 5 articles
Marco, E. J., Hinkley, L. B., Hill, S. S., & Nagarajan, S. S. (2011). Sensory processing in autism: a review of neurophysiologic findings. Pediatric research, 69(5 Pt 2), 48R–54R. https://doi.org/10.1203/PDR.0b013e3182130c54
Hadad, B. S., & Yashar, A. (2022). Sensory Perception in Autism: What Can We Learn?. Annual review of vision science, 8, 239–264. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-vision-093020-035217
Rinaldi, L. J., Simner, J., Koursarou, S., & Ward, J. (2023). Autistic traits, emotion regulation, and sensory sensitivities in children and adults with Misophonia. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 53(3), 1162–1174. https://doi-org.rdas-proxy.mercy.edu/10.1007/s10803-022-05623-x
Caminha, R. C., & Lampreia, C. (2012). Findings on sensory deficits in autism: Implications for understanding the disorder. Psychology & Neuroscience, 5(2), 231–237. https://doi-org.rdas-proxy.mercy.edu/10.3922/j.psns.2012.2.14
