Research in Psychology

Use the following research study to answer questions 35 – 45.
After careful observation, Jaime finds that when children eat a lot of sugar they tend to become
aggressive. She decided to do a research study to try to confirm this is the case. Specifically,
Jaime is testing whether eating five sugar candy bars in the morning will cause aggression in an
afternoon “play- date” of five year olds. Jaime separates the five-year-olds into three groups.
Group A got five candy bars; Group B got five sugar-free candy bars; and Group C got no candy
bars. Upon doing a behavioral and statistical analysis, Jaime found that group A was
significantly more aggressive during the play-date than group B and Group Label the following:
35. Theory:_____________
36. Hypothesis:_______________
37. Experimental Group(s): ______________
38. Control Group (s):_______________
39. Dependent variable:______________
40. Independent Variable_______
41. Placebo: ___________
42. What is the operational definition of “a lot” of sugar in this research study?
43. Is there another variable in this study that requires an operational definition? ____________
44. If so, which? If not, why?_________
45. Suppose that Jaime was extremely pleasant and accommodating to group A. What would
this be an example of?___________
51. True or False: Key issues in psychology, should be viewed as being on an opposite end of
a continuum.
52. True or False: Scientists have found that new neurons cannot be created past the age of 21,
when the brain fully matures.
53. True or False: Theories provide a framework for understanding relationships among a set of
otherwise unorganized facts or principles
54. True or False: By employing both experimental and control groups in an experiment,
researchers are able to rule out the possibility that something other than the experimental
manipulation produced the results observed in the experiment.
55. True or False: Oxytocin is a hormone that is at the root of many of life’s satisfactions and
pleasures.
56. True or False: The ultimate processing of visual images takes place in the retina, where the
most complex kinds of processing occur.
57. True or False: The first true laboratory for the study of psychology was set up by Sigmund
Freud.
58. True or False: Some neurons are capable of firing as many as 1,000 times per second
. 59. True or False: Neuroplasticity refers to the brain’s inabillty to change throughout the life
span.
60. True or False: Evolution has produced a neural transmission system that at some points has
no need for a structural connection between its components
61. True or False: The autonomic division in the nervous system plays a crucial role during
emergencies.
62. True or False: Using random assignment in experimentation, increases the chances that
each of the groups being studied will have approximately the same proportion of individual
characteristics.
63. True or False: During REM sleep, the major muscles of the body appear to be paralyzed.
64. True or False: Mirror neurons are important because they may help explain how and why
humans have the capacity to understand others’ intentions and may be the root of empathy.
65. True or False: Dreams are less likely to occur in the REM period.
66. True or False: Correlational studies can yield cause and effect results if conducted using
the scientific method.
67. True or False: The brain’s integration of visual information occurs in a single step and
location.
68. True or False: The nervous system is the pathway for the instructions that permit our bodies
to carry out precise activities.
69. True or False: Neurons, or nerve cells are the basic elements of the nervous system.
70. True or False: Damage to the right side of the brain is typically indicated by functioning
difficulties in the right side of the body and vice versa
. 71. True or False: Experiments are the only form of research that can determine cause and
effect relationships.
72. True or False: The hemispheres of the brain work independently in deciphering, interpreting,
and reacting to the world.
73. True or False: Weber’s law helps to explain why a person in a quiet room is more startled
by the ringing of a cell phone than a person in an already noisy room.
74. True or False: Judgments of sensory stimuli are affected by the context in which the
judgements are made .
75. True or false: messages that travel through a neuron are electrical in nature.

Personality Research 
All assignments MUST be typed and double-spaced, in APA style and must be written at graduate level English.
The content, conciseness and clarity of your answers will be considered in the evaluation of your work.
You must use and integrate the material presented in the course text and cite your work according to APA format.
Use of outside resources can be used to enhance the text information, but cannot replace the text.
Do not copy the questions in your responses. book Cervone, D., & Pervin, L. A. (2019).  Personality: Theory and research. John Wiley & Sons.

Compare and contrast Term Research Paper – Packet analysis using Wireshark and other methods 
Assignment Instructions
Students will research, develop and submit a Term Paper that meets the below requirements. This topic builds of the previous assignments (Paper Topic, Paper Outline). The student has a topic, an outline, and now builds on this to meet this requirement. The student will create and submit an academic research paper, (of at least five and no more than seven pages). Use the APA format, 5-7 pages, double-spaced, Times New Roman or Ariel Fonts, and list all references.

Research Proposal for Masters Class 
LENGTH: This proposal should be no more than 3,000 words, excluding title/contents page,
appendix and bibliography, but including text in tables and footnotes. You are recommended to
use single line spacing and a plain serif (e.g. Times New Roman) or sans serif (e.g. Arial) font in
font size 11. Advisory lengths for each section of the assignment are provided in brackets
overleaf.
FORMAT: A Microsoft Word or PDF document, with numbered pages.
CONTENT: There is no one ‘correct’ way to write a research design, but here are some
GUIDELINES you should consider. In general, please be as specific as possible about your
questions and hypotheses, definitions, case selections and strategies, measurement and
variables coding etc., and methods of data analysis. We all feel uncertain about whether we’re
‘getting it right’ when we put together a research design, but don’t let uncertainty stand in the way
of specificity! Explain important uncertainties, rather than hiding them.
1. Background/literature review (~2 pages)
Don’t be tempted to dedicate ‘too much’ space to the background/literature review section.
Around two pages should suffice. An effective literature review is one that shows how your
research question(s) is situated in the relevant literature in your field, not one that demonstrates
that you have read a lot of that literature. So don’t include lots of literature on related topics that
are not specifically relevant to your contribution. The literature review introduces us to the
broader landscape of research that gives rise to your research question(s), which are in a sense
your ‘point of departure’ from what has already been published.
The literature review can begin with a wide angle view, but it should move quite quickly to focus
on research/concepts/theory/controversies in those areas that are relevant to your research
questions. Because the literature review ought to set up your research questions, those
questions should emerge quite organically from the literature review section. In other words, the
‘fit’ between the literature review and the research questions should be obvious.
2. Research questions (~1 short paragraph [equivalent])
Research questions may be exploratory or confirmatory, inductive or deductive, descriptive or
explanatory, or may not tidily correspond to any of these categories. Regardless of which of
these they are, they need to be clearly and explicitly stated (e.g. set out or listed as an
overarching research question with sub-questions) and should be clearly motivated by the
content of the preceding background/literature review section. And make sure that they are
actually questions (rather than statements or assumptions)!
3. Data collection plan (~1-3 pages)
You need to be very clear in describing the data/evidence that you are using and how the
variables or concepts are measured and/or coded. Describe and justify, as concretely as
possible, your proposed case selection and/or sampling strategies and the data collection
methods you propose to use, within the practical limitations of your project and timeframe. What
are the strengths and weaknesses of the choices that you have made?
4. Data analysis plan (~1-3 pages)
Given the decisions you have made about your topic, research questions and data collection –
what are the most appropriate forms of analysis? Here you should discuss the analytic method
and how it helps answer the question. Note that software is not a method: we do not care if you
use Nvivo or Stata, we do care if you use thematic analysis or logistic regression.
5. Potential findings, impact and relevance of the study (~0.5-1 page)
As this is a piece of research design you cannot describe the findings of your study. However, we
would like you to anticipate how you could expect your research to make a difference (to the
topic and/or disciplinary field at hand and taking into account the type/s of research question/s
posed). What findings do you expect, and what findings, if any, would be surprising or contradict
your expectations/theoretical stance? How could such findings, whether expected or unexpected,
impact the academic literature/policy/practice/public life [as relevant to your topic and design]?
6. Limitations and further research (~0.5-1 page)
Here you should discuss the limitations of your design as currently conceived. There are different
kinds of limitations. One kind to consider is how aspects of your research design limit what you
can know, or claim, as part of your outcomes. For example, questions on internal and external
validity are common limitations, as are reliability and validity of measurement. You may only be
doing part 1 of what is a 3- part research project. You may be doing what is effectively a pilot
study. Another limiting factor can be ethical issues that arise from your research design.
7. References
Please include proper in-text citations and a reference list, consistently using a standard
reference format. You are advised to provide references for both the substantive and the
methodological content of your proposal. We would typically expect to see around one page of
cited references listed.

1. Select an article

Find a current research article related to the topic you have chosen. Current means published online in 2020. Research means academic in nature and coming from a reputable medical journal.

1. Reading

Once topic and article are approved, download the article in WORD (double spacing which will enable you to mark the article).
Make a first SKIM of the whole article, making hand written notes for yourself while skimming – paying attention to associations or suppositions that come to mind while reading, old or previous views of the topic versus current or new views, alternative views, controversy, disagreements or debates which arise.
On your second SKIM, you should be ready to mark (highlight) the article for main ideas, background information, hypothesis statement, research question, research methodology, results, controversy, alternative views, examples, studies, names of various researchers and experiments.
Use a code for marking the paper:
MI = main idea
BI = background information (historical overview of the topic)
HYP = hypothesis statement
RQ = research question
METH = methodology
EXP = experiment (1,2,3)
EVID = evidence, that supports a claim
RES =results, findings
CONT = controversy (alternative views, debate, disagreement)
DISC = discussion of the results
CONC = conclusion/s,
APP = future applications
Writing a Summary
Your summary should commence with the title of the article, the researcher/s, the source (publication and date). Then you can introduce the major ideas and topics.
The major points which should be included in your summary are the main claim, hypothesis, evidence and conclusions. No more than 300 words. Please use simple sentences and check your spelling and grammar before sending!