To get started on you Research Report about Reaction Time, you need to settle on

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To get started on you Research Report about Reaction Time, you need to settle on a topic and develop a hypothesis that is compatible with the data I supply. You have choices to make here.. Your hypothesis and topic determines what you choose to analyze. You could be interested in reaction time and age so you analyze the three tasks' results by age. You may be interested in gender differences or even gender by age differences. You may be interested in something else, like if the participant was an athlete or not. You can create a new variable in the data and put a 1 if the participant was an athlete and a 0 if not. Then you can analyze the data by that grouping. You could make up a new variable for how many drinks the participant had prior to doing the lab. You could see if there was a correlation between the number of drinks and the time they spent on the lab. Your choice!

Compose your response to this discussion with your name as the subject. Describe your research idea and topic and what your hypothesis is. Also tell me how you plan (or think you might plan) to analyze the data. Its okay if you are not sure about this- we will discuss it and I will give you some guidance if necessary.

As an example: My research idea is about whether or not age correlates to reaction time. I am only going to use task 1. My hypothesis is that as people get older, their reaction time increases, they get slower. I will set up the data in two columns and run a Pearson correlation of time by age using SPSS.

Note: There were three tasks in the lab- 1) simple reaction time task 2) a go/no go reaction task and 3) a choice reaction time task. You only need to pick one.

Also, please use at least 50 subjects in each group.

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Outline for Research Project Proposal

1. Introduction
Explain the issue you are examining and why it is significant.

2. Background/Review of the Literature

A description of what has already known about this area and short discussion of why the background studies are not sufficient.

3. Rationale

A description of the questions you are examining and an exploration of the claims.

4. Method and Design

A description of how you would go about collecting data and test the questions your are examining. You are not required to come up with a new or original method (though you can try!). Look journal articles to determine what methods are standardly used to assess knowledge of language in your chosen area and adapt one of these for your needs.

Method: How would you collect the data and why?

Design: What would the stimuli look like and why?

Procedure

Analysis

5. Significance and Conclusion
Discuss, in general, how your proposed research would lead to a significant improvement over the original studies, and how it would benefit the field. (In other words, why should someone care? If you were applying for money to do this, why would someone fund you? If you wanted to publish your results, why would they be interesting?)

6. References
Include all references in APA style.

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