Designing And Reporting Experiments In Psychology Quotes

“Some preliminaries (page 22)

The second feature is definitely not open to disregard. This is the requirement, central to the construction of our INTRODUCTION, to substantiate all factual assertions. A factual assertion is simply anything that could prompt your reader to ask 'who says?'. Anything that could be re-written as 'it was found that' or 'it was argued that' or 'it was claimed that' etc., can be regarded as a factual assertion and requires substantiation. You are expected to tell the reader at least by whom it was found (argued, or claimed) and when. So, if you make a firm statement about any aspect of the psychological universe (however trivial), you must attempt to support it.”
― Peter Harris, Designing And Reporting Experiments In Psychology

“Some preliminaries (page 18)

METHOD
-- DESIGN
-- SUBJECTS
-- APPARATUS and/or MATERIALS
-- PROCEDURE

Figure 1.4 The sub-sections of the METHOD”
― Peter Harris, Designing And Reporting Experiments In Psychology

“Some preliminaries (page 18)

INTRODUCTION
What you did
Why you did it

METHOD
How you did it

RESULTS
What you found (including details of how the data were analyzed)

DISCUSSION
What you think it shows

Figure 1.3 Where the information in Figure 1.1 should appear in the report”
― Peter Harris, Designing And Reporting Experiments In Psychology

“Some preliminaries (page 18)

Title
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
METHOD
RESULTS
DISCUSSION
REFERENCES
APPENDICES (if any)

Figure 1.2 The sections of the practical report”
― Peter Harris, Designing And Reporting Experiments In Psychology

“Some preliminaries (page 17)

Moreover, like the storytellers of old, although you will invariably be telling your story to someone who knows quite a bit about it already, you are expected to present it as if it had never been heard before, spelling out the details and assuming little knowledge of the area on the part of your audience.”
― Peter Harris, Designing And Reporting Experiments In Psychology