After you’ve chosen a relevant study and this has been approved by your teacher,

you need to do some research and background reading.

1. You should try to find the original published article of your study and read it
from start to finish. You may find some of the academic language a bit difficult
but you need to do this. You may find it easier to locate the article through
Google Scholar. Sometimes, a link will take you to an “Abstract” or summary -
this is not enough. You need the full article.
2. As you read, make notes on the aims, methods, results and conclusions.
Check in particular that you really understand the procedures used in the study -
what materials were used and what participants were asked to do. Make sure
that it would be suitable for you to replicate for your experiment. Remember that
you can make small changes to the original study’s procedures to suit the
purpose of this assignment and you can develop your own materials
3. Make a note on a Google or Word document of the REFERENCE of the
article. File this document as “IA References”. You are asked to use a particular
style to record your references and we use either APA or Harvard referencing.
See the example below:

.You will see that the format is - Family/surname, Initial, Date of Publication in brackets,
then the Title of the article. If you cannot find this, just for now, copy and paste the page
link from your web page - https://nobaproject.com/modules/eyewitness-testimony-and-
memory-biases

4. Identify the THEORY or MODEL that is being tested in the experiment. It is

important that you understand the original context of the study you are
replicating, including any particular theory or model upon which it’s based. In
order to get full marks for the introduction in your IA you need to make sure that
“...the theory or model upon which (your) investigation is based is described.” If
you were conducting a study related to schema theory, for example, you would
need to be able to describe this theory. The same applies for other theories or
 models, such as the multi-store mode, the effort heuristic l or dual-processing
theory.
5. Finally, do some research on the theory or model to get an idea of what it is
about and whether there are people who disagree with it as well as support it.
Take brief notes on what you find and keep a note of the reference or sources of
the information in your Reference doc.

SO! You have FIVE tasks for this week:

1. find the original published article of your study and read it
2. make notes on the aims, methods, results and conclusions.
3. Make a note on a Google or Word document of the REFERENCE
4. Identify the THEORY or MODEL that is being tested in the experiment.
5. do some research on the theory or model

SUBMIT your notes from tasks 1 and 5 and your reference doc.