Fundamental Attribution Error

What is a Research Proposal? A very common assignment college Psychology professors give to students is to write a research proposal. The research proposal is just that, a proposal to do a research project. By proposal we mean that the document is a description of a research project that will be -- or could be -- completed in the future. The research proposal is very similar to a manuscript experimental report except for the following exceptions: 1. The method section is written in the future tense. 2. The results section describes the statistical methods intended to be used. 3. We will not do a discussion section. For example, in college I wrote two research proposals. One was for my Sensation & Perception class (Caffeine Intake and Caffeine Habituation on the Perception of Time) and the second was for my senior seminar (Effects of Articulatory Suppression on the Picture Superiority Effect). For both classes I had to conduct a study also. I had to turn in the research proposal and have it approved before I could collect data. You will need to write research proposals in many situations: • Psychology majors across the country write them for classes as a final research paper (without actually conducting the experiments) or • a senior thesis (usually with collecting the data), • the ethics review board application to run an experiment is a research proposal, • to receive a grant for research you will need to write a research proposal and • to conduct a master’s thesis or doctorial dissertation you will need to write a research proposal! Two important things about your research proposal! 1. The research you propose will need to be original. You can’t redo research already done. 2. There must be a scientific rationale for your hypothesis and method. All that this means is that you can cite a scientific reason (usually in another study) as to why you proposed the hypothesis and why you chose the methodology you chose. Fall, 2018 The key to meeting both of these goals is look for research threads and programmic research and think in terms of designing an extension of a previous study. Draft Research Proposal The draft of the research proposal should be a completed document with all sections (except a results section) which has been proofread and edited before being submitted. You do not need an abstract or discussion section for either the first or final draft. Don’t get a bad grade – do this instead: 1. Use the grading rubric for the first draft as a checklist (of course use the ‘excellent’ category for a checklist) 2. Don’t forget the present study section – see the’ 2 trivial and important things’ video on youtube 3. You better be able to say which (from the Saylor text) design you are using to describe the design you are using. 4. Your extension should be supported by research articles. Final Research Proposal In grading this draft, I will take into account how well you responded to my feedback and your peers’ feedback to your draft. The final draft should be at least 10 pages of text (a normal range is 10-20) and contain at least 10 references (a normal range is 10 - 20). The final draft will need to include a results section with the following material: • identify which statistical tests you plan to use, • for each, identify which one of your study’s variables will serve as the IV/predictor variables (this should be done clearly enough so that there is no question as to specifics, such as what are the levels in an ANOVA) • for each, identify which one of your study’s variables will serve as the DV/criterion variables. • For each, identify if you wish the test to be significant or not, • For each, identify the degrees of freedom (based on our sample size) and present the critical value for the tes                                                                                                                            

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