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Interesting Title

Your name, Student number

School

(CLASS) _ (SECTION)

Instructor:

Date due
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This is the introduction to your paper. Notice that there is no introduction heading. For

the rest of the paper, there are headings, just not for the introduction. You could have a heading,

but it would be the title of your study proposal. Start with the broad topic and narrow down to

issues relevant to the topic and to your paper. Create a rationale for your study by examining

research that logically flows to your methods section. Do not talk about the current study,

hypotheses or predictions until you have set up your rationale. An introduction should not be a

literature review, instead, it should discuss papers with as little or as much detail as needed to

help create your rationale. The first time you cite an author, if there are three or more authors,

you can use “et al.” right away (Huggon et al., 2020). If you cite a paper with two authors,

always name both (Bangs & Smith-Spark, 2020). The only time you use page numbers is when

you are doing a direct quote from someone; for example: quoting the students, the teaching style

of Huggon was “amazing” (Huggon et al., 2020, p. 11).

Method

Participants/Design

Participants in the study will be fifty University of Toronto undergraduate students in

first year psychology.

Materials

Consent Form

The consent form is awesome. Description of the important details.

Prejudice Questionnaire

A description of the prejudice questionnaire, how it measures, number of items, and a

few samples (see Appendix A for full questionnaire).

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The general basic description of factors in common in this material.

Mock Trial Transcript Condition A. A description of the major elements in this item.

Mock Trial Transcript Condition B. A description of the major elements in this item.

Mock Trial Transcript Condition C. A description of the major elements in this item.

Mock Trial Transcript Condition D. A description of the major elements in this item.

Procedure

Basically, what the participants do when they come to the lab. If it is describing

participant actions, it is here. If it is describing a material, move it to the materials.

Predicted Results

The results section summarizes data collected (do not include raw data – if needed, you

can put it in an appendix) and the statistical analyses that were performed. In the case of a study

proposal, it will be a summary of the predicted results. Remember, report the results without

subjective interpretation. This is a relatively brief overview of your findings, not a complete

presentation of every single number and calculation. Report data to set up a rationale for your

conclusions. Be accurate and do not omit any relevant or “negative” findings, even if they fail to

support your predictions. Results that do not support your predictions are pretty cool – maybe

you have discovered something new!

Save your interpretation of results for the discussion section.

Discussion

It is time to interpret your results. The information reported in the results section must

justify your claims. Use your results section as you write the discussion to confirm the data you

need is there to support your conclusions.

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Discuss how your results and interpretations impact the current scientific research.

Discuss how these results and interpretations can be applied to real life. Discuss necessary

limitations (if any) in this study that could be improved upon in future studies. Discuss future

directions in this line of research. Make sure to wrap the whole paper up with a broad conclusion

(similar to the broad start in the introduction).

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References

Bangs, K., & Smith-Spark, J.H. (2020). Mental reinstatement of context: Do individual

differences in mental time travel and eyewitness occupation influence eyewitness

performance over different delay intervals? Journal of Investigative Psychology and

Offender Profiling, 17(1), 31-45. https://doi.org/10.1002/jip.1536

Covey, S. R. (2013). The 7 habits of highly effective people: Powerful lessons in personal

change. Simon & Schuster.

Huggon, W., Huggon, T., & Huggon, P. (2020). How to write a good study proposal. Journal of

Awesome APA Writing Style, 1(5), 1-4.