The following assessable pieces of work will form the 40% mark associated with the Laboratory Program. The remaining 60% of marks will be divided equally between the four Lecture Stream topics.
You will be required to write three drafts in total each worth 3%. Each draft will be one section of a full long report (e.g. just the Method), Two of these partial reports will be set as assignments and then marked in the following lab class by you and submitted with your comments to be marked by the demonstrators. The third draft section will be written up in lab class and submitted at the completion of the Week 6 lab for assessment.
You will write a method section describing how data was collected for the Attitudes to Computers experiment in Week 1 of the Lab program. You will need to consider subjects, conditions, data generated and the proposed analyses of that data in completing this task.
You will write an introduction to the Language Acquisition report reviewing the prescribed reading that leads to the hypotheses being tested. Note that you should always be able to articulate the hypotheses you are testing prior to collecting the data.
A draft Results section will be written up in the Week 6 lab class, after we have reviewed the Language Acquistion data, while it is fresh in your mind, and with lab demonstrators on hand to assist you. It is hoped that this process will ensure that every class member has a grasp of the results of the WUG experiment.
You are required to submit data for each of the class experiments. We test scientific hypotheses by collecting empirical data and analysing whether those data support our hypotheses. Practicing psychologists record information about their clients as a critical part of their work. It is therefore of some importance to your training as psychologists that you are able to record your data accurately and efficiently, according to the guidelines given to you. Failure to return all data sheets including the consent form, (but NOT including the explanatory letter to Parent/Guardian!!) and to enter data accurately for the WUG prac will incur a mark penalty (maximum of 2%).
You are required to write up the Attitudes to Computers experiment (for which you have already written one draft section) as a short report.
A short report is not a condensed version of a long report but should include the following.
Suggested Length: 750 words maximum.
Due in: Monday, April 14th, 1997, 12:00 noon at the General Office.
(Remember Assignment Cover Sheet)
You are required to write up the WUG experiment as a long report. It must include an abstract, and the results and discussion can be combined into a single `Results and Discussion' section that might be followed by a brief `General Discussion'.
Length: 1,500 absolute maximum (i.e., from introduction to end of discussion). Please include a word count at the end of your report! Failure to do so may incur a 1 mark penalty.
Due in: Monday, May 5th, 1996, 12:00 noon at the General Office. (Remember Assignment Cover Sheet)
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Return to topYou will keep a lab diary, in which you write notes on your experimental
work, and you include details of laboratory classes for which
there is no other formal assessment. Your lab diary will be submitted
in the final week of semester.
Due: Friday 6th June, 12.00 noon. Lab Diaries will be signed in at the General Office.
Assessment of the lab diary is based on the quality of the record you have kept of lab classes, with less emphasis on factual knowledge and more emphasis on independent thoughts and ideas. Markers will be looking for the following features:
Marks will be allocated in the following manner, where less than good performance in one area may be offset by excellent performance elsewhere.
Thoughts, reflections, comments on the following labs (Note: Set questions on issues raised in these labs may contribute to the following mark breakdown).
The other 2% will be made from comments and reflections on the other aspects of the lab program including the formulating and assessment of your personal learning objectives in the PSY2011 lab program, notes on the WUG data collection process, library tutes and anything else you care to comment on.
Note that this is a laboratory program, where the actual doing or experiential component is deemed to be important to learning. The weight in terms of marks assigned will not necessarily reflect the relative time spent on each task, nor will it necessarily reflect the relative importance of each task to your future in psychology or elsewhere.