For this assignment, you are being asked to prepare an
APA-style research proposal on a topic in psychology. The objective
of this assignment is to encourage you to think about a problem,
phenomenon, or treatment of interest to you that can be tested
through an empirical approach, and apply the concepts we’ve
discussed all semester to design a strong research proposal.
Proposals must include the following components:
1) An Introduction (i.e., literature review): This section
provides the background literature and rationale for your proposed
study. It should include summaries of studies related to your topic
(i.e., that support the rationale for investigating your topic)
with proper APA-style citations. This section should be about 4-6
pages.
2) Statement of Purpose and Hypotheses: At the end of your
Introduction section, you should include a final paragraph that
includes a statement describing the design and purpose of your
proposed study, as well as your hypotheses (i.e., what you expect
to find). For example, you might state something like: “Past
research has shown … but the reasons for … remain unclear.
Therefore, the purpose of the current proposal is to examine … in a
(experimental or observational or survey or quasi-experimental or
longitudinal, etc.) study”. You will end this section by making
specific predictions: “I hypothesize that …”
3) Proposed Methods: This section of the proposal includes 3
subsections: Participants, Measures, and Procedures. The
Participants section includes information about how participants
will be recruited; eligibility criteria (inclusion/exclusion
criteria); # of participants expected to participate; # of
males/females, age range, etc; incentives for participation. The
Measures section includes information about questionnaires
participants would complete or equipment that they would use in the
course of the study. Questionnaires should include a reference and
a description of the important elements (e.g., reference to their
utility/validity/reliability for the intended purpose, # of items,
how it is administered; etc). If assessments involve an interview,
these questions would be described here. The Procedure section
includes a description of how the study would be conducted. This
includes instructions to participants, how independent variables
(IVs) will be manipulated, how dependent variables (DVs) will be
measured, randomization procedures, descriptions of treatment, how
often participants will be assessed, debriefing procedures, etc.
This section should be about 4-6 pages.
4) Proposed Results: You are not collecting data for this
assignment, so you have no results to report. However, in a
proposed analysis section, you restate your hypotheses and explain
the analyses you would use to test your hypotheses. You want to be
specific about the type of analysis and which variables would be
involved for each hypothesis. For example, you might say something
like: “To test the hypothesis that … an Analysis of Covariance
(ANCOVA) was conducted with xxx as the independent variable
(levels: xxx), xxx as the dependent variable, and xxx included as
covariates.” This section will be rather brief, probably >1
page.
5) Potential Limitations: Although you should try your best
to design the best possible study, remember that no study is
perfect, and every choice we make as researchers can limit our
internal or external validity. At the end of your paper, you should
include some of the possible limitations of your research design.
Based on your choice of design, what might be some shortcomings or
possible confounds?
6) References: References must be primary, scholarly sources
(largely empirical papers/journal articles) from the past 10-15
years. Plan to include at least 5-10 references. Please follow APA
style for referencing.
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Some important notes:
1) Be sure to check out the guides on Blackboard for writing
a good Introduction and Methods section. These guides will give you
lots of important guidance, and if you follow them step-by-step,
you will have a great proposal in no time!
2) Please follow APA style in terms of structure of the paper
as well as referencing. Your textbook has good examples of APA
style, and I have put some guides on Blackboard. Other resources
for this include the websites I posted on Blackboard and the APA
manual, which is on reserve in the library.
3) The articles you read as part of your literature review
will provide additional guidance in terms of what to include in the
different sections of the proposal and how the sections of your
proposal should be structured.
4) Research proposals must be typed in 12-point font,
double-spaced, with 1-inch margins. In terms of the page limit,
most papers should be at least 10 pages in lenght (10 pages of
text, not including references), but may be longer in order to
accomplish all of the goals of the proposal outlined above.
5) Grading: Proposals will be graded on 1) content
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