Psy 241 Developmental Issue Assignment

Start by finding at least 3-5 scholarly peer-reviewed articles on your topic. Read them carefully. You may not understand everything in the article, and that’s okay, but you should be able to get the main idea, and it may spark some inspiration.

For your paper, imagine that you are a developmental psychologist researching your topic. Come up with a hypothesis and design an experiment to test your hypothesis. You can investigate causes of a disorder or potential treatments, etc. Keep it simple and focus on one independent variable. Write up your experiment as if you were submitting to a scholarly journal.

Include the following sections:
Introduction- Background on your topic: definition and brief overview of research that has been done on the issue. What is your hypothesis? Clearly describe what your independent and dependent variables will be.

Methods- How will you conduct your research? Include details. For example, how many research participants will you use and where will you recruit them from?

Results- You are not actually going to conduct your experiment. Here you will report what you would expect to find if your experiment went the way you think it will. Include at least one graph (created by you) of your expected results. Do not copy the graph from another source.

Discussion- Sum up what you expected to find in your experiment. Tell me how this information might fit into, or expand upon, previous research that has been done on your topic. Something else required in this section are potential confounds…is there anything that you can think of that might interfere with your results?
References- In this section list the reference articles that you used (at least 3-5) and be sure to use APA style.
In this assignment you are looking to test the validity of your hypothesis, so
you would not be using a case study or survey. Look carefully at the grading rubric and be sure to answer the questions posed for each section. Keep in mind that you are limited to five pages. No abstract is needed, but do include a title page (this will not count towards your page limit).