Seminar 2 - Lecture notes 2 PDF

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Seminar 2: Article Summary - APS format Purpose - To thrive in our field, you must b able to read and understand relevant research - You must be able to communicate your knowledge clearly and concisely. This assignment is designed to develop your scientific reading and writing skills Article Summary - An extremely condensed synopsis of a journal article (500 words) Assignment Basics Who is the target audience of an article summary? - Normally, it would be your future self as you work on writing a journal article (or research paper) of your own. In this case the professor/ TA will be acting as a surrogate for your future self - Implications: there are 2 - First what is relevant in an article often changes - Second, for this assignment try to get the main points (big ideas) - Articles are written with specific sections because each of these types of information are important, include a summary of all of them - Introduction: context and hypothesis (purpose) - Methods: operationalization of IV and DV, usually these are explained (how to interpret them) in the introduction - Results: main findings - Discussion: relationship of the main findings to the hypotheses, problems and implications What to expect from the introduction - A formulation of the main problem - An issue (the nature of memory) - The current start of the art on the issue (two dominant theories) - The “new” issue that the current studies address (e.g examining X to discriminate between the two theories) - The specific predictions of the two theories What to expect from the Method - A detailed description of the Task used (to elicit behaviour) - The task should not be new to you. Research in the introduction should have used same task. What did they do different - Need to know the basic parameters of the task (if not standardized) and how they differ from past research - Need to know the independent and dependent measures of interest What to expect in the results - A description of the findings and significance tests - Will likely include a description of the type of analyses, data trimming, missing data - Will likely include a whole bunch of findings that are irrelevant to the specific hypotheses - Note some of these may be important to establish continuity with past work (replicate or fail to replicate well known findings)

May include some description of the relationship to the hypothesis (if not check the 1st paragraph of the discussion What to expect in the Discussion - The connections between the present results and the hypotheses and past work (detailed in the discussion - How the outcome of the study relates to the hypothesis - The implications for the main issue - Other implications (watch for the repetition of papers from the introduction) - Problems and areas for future investigation -...