Smith, Jones, & Terry 2008 investigated the effects of death-qualification on ju

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Smith, Jones, & Terry 2008 investigated the effects of death-qualification on jurors’ confidence. A “death-qualified” juror is one who is willing to give the death penalty. 60 college students were randomly assigned to one of 2 different conditions. In both conditions, participants completed a short questionnaire that asked them whether they would or would not be willing to give the death penalty. In the first condition, participants reported aloud their response, and those participants who were not willing to give the death penalty were asked to leave the experiment. In the other condition, participants handed in their response on a written survey. Again, the researchers told participants who were not willing to give the death penalty to leave. After participants unwilling to give the death penalty left, the researchers told the remaining 45 “death-qualified” participants to fill out surveys regarding how confident they felt in their original death-qualification answers. The researchers found that, “participants in the verbal response condition were more confident in their death qualification status than participants in the written response condition”. The researchers concluded that making public commitments about death-qualification status makes participants more confident in their death-qualified status.

1)The paragraph above has several APA formatting errors. Your job is to spot at least four errors, which you will describe. Below, type in the errors and the corrections for that error. (If you see less than four errors, then type “no other errors”). Assume that the paragraph above is in the literature review of a paper (in the introduction). You can also assume that it has 1 inch margins and is double spaced 1 point for each error spotted, or 4 points total)

2) What is the independent varaiable and dependent variable?

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Errors committed are as follows-

1. Smith, Jones, & Terry 2008 - This is the wrong format for quoting researchers. The reference must be quoted in the following manner- Smith, Jones and Terry (2008). While starting the paragraph, quoting a research within the text, the name(s) of the author(s) must be written followed by the year in parenthesis. In case, any definition by acclaimed authors is to be quoted in verbatim, then the definition needs to be written within double inverted commas (''.......") followed by author(s) name and year in parenthesis.

2. The text is not justified, that is, the text has been written with a left indent when in fact, it needs to be written with a 'Justified' indenting.

3. In the second line, "death qualified" is written in double inverted commas. It should be written in single inverted ('death qualified') commas and the definition should be in double inverted commas (''......."). Moreover who has given this definition is also not quoted (reference is missing).

4. In the last line (The researchers concluded that making public commitments about death-qualification status makes participants more confident in their death-qualified status.) a comma must be placed separating- The researchers, concluded, that making...... death-qualified status.

Answer for question number 2. - The independent variable is 'Death Qualification' and the dependent variable is 'Juror's Confidence'.

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