Assignment: visual demonstration

Assignment: visual demonstration
Assignment: visual demonstration
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ASSIGNMENT ON INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH
For this final assignment, you will write a paper in APA 6th edition styling. Your paper should have a title page, running head, references section, as well as a body section that is properly formatted. You can consult your APA manual and also look under “Files ? Course Documents” on Canvas for more information about formatting. A sample paper is provided for a visual demonstration. This paper should be no less than 8 pages long excluding the title page, abstract, and references page. You will need to conduct a t-test on the data to determine if the sample means are significantly different. After the data from Math Tasks Assignment is compiled, the data will be posted on Canvas.
Think of a test with 100 math problems…There are two types of problems: addition and subtraction. Would you finish the test faster if you completed all of the addition problems first and all of the subtraction problems second? Is it more efficient to complete all of the addition problems first? If you switch back and forth between addition and subtraction, will the mental effort of ‘task-switching’ actually slow you down? Or is simple math so easy that there will be no difference? The class experiment that we conducted intended to measure just that. We used a math task that could be completed in an organized fashion to minimize task switching (Task A), or a disorganized fashion (Task B) that required a task switch for every problem attempted. If there is no difference between switching tasks repeatedly, and completing the same problems in an organized fashion, then there should be no difference in the mean (average) completion times of our Task A and Task B samples. T tests are used to determine if the difference between sample means is significantly different or not. Using the class’s pooled data, you will conduct a t- test to compare the sample means of Task A and Task B. Then, you will write a paper that describes the experiment and analyzes the data.
OVERVIEW
1. Access the data in the excel file [DATASET.xlsx] ? ANNOUNCEMENTS SECTION 2. You will need to find 3 journal articles that have relevance to our study, and cite
information from those articles using in-text citations (articles are provided for you Canvas).
? You need at least 2 relevant in-text citations for each article. ? The in-text citations should be bold in the color red.
3. You need to be able to analyze the data using a t test, and analyze patterns by comparing/reporting correlations.
4. Write a paper (APA 6th edition) that is at least 8 pages (10 including title/ref.)