Design a psychological study on memory and false confessions. Use the rubric below. State how the study will meet the goals of psychology, specifically, to describe, explain, predict, and/or control human behaviour and improve the quality of human life in our time.
Steps:
Be able to apply a theory, a method, and critical thinking. Pick a topic and then engage the learning materials in the attached document and external sources to review what has been said about it and how it has already been researched. WHEN USING INFORMATION FROM THE WORD DOCUMENT CITE AS (WORD DOCUMENT).
MUST USE SCHOLARLY ARTICLES FOR OUTSIDE REFERENCES
Follow the rubric below to outline your (mock) study.
Rubric
You can approach the question as a series of short answers by rubric section or as one long answer in essay format.
Research question: /5 marks
• What topic in psychology do you want to know more about?
Purpose of study: /5 marks
• Why are you doing this research?
• What is your objective?
o Consider the goals of psychology
Describe, explain, predict, and control behaviour through research and practice in order to improve people’s lives
Critical thinking/mini literature review: /10 marks
• What does the literature say about this topic?
o What have other researchers found?
o How did they find it?
o What are the limitations of their study/findings?
Hypothesis: /5 marks
• What do you think you will find based on your review of the literature and what you have learned about the topic in the text and learning materials for this class?
Theory: /5 marks
• What theoretical framework will you use to guide your study and why?
o Review Chapter 2 with focus on biological and cognitive domains, and the theories of evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, and cognition.
Tell me why you are using this perspective/s (and not others)
Explain the reason for your approach
Method: /5 marks
• What research method will you use to collect your data?
• What study will you try to replicate?
o Tell me why you chose this study and method
• Review Chapter 3 for the different data collection methods you can use
o Descriptive
Case Study
Observation
• Naturalistic
• Laboratory
Test
Survey
o Correlational
o Lab experiment
Tentative conclusion/s: /5 marks
• Why does your research matter?
• What makes your proposed study significant?
• How will your research contribute to the body of knowledge on this topic?