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The Method SectionThe Method Section
The Basics
“This is how I collected the data”
Most straight-forward and objective
section in the paper
Concise but enough details to beConcise, but enough details to be
replicated by someone else
Three subsections
Participants
Materials
Procedure
_________________ Subsection
How many and how you obtained the
sample
Percent of males and females
Any other demographic information that isy g p
relevant to your project (e.g., age)
Their incentive for participating
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___________________ Subsection
List all scales
In order of importance
Dependent variables and outcome variables listed last
Include reference for borrowed scale
Ex. Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale ( RSES ; Rosenberg, 1965)1965).
Place items you created in an Appendix and
refer to those items here
Include reliability information (Cronbach’s alpha)
for each interval scale
Explain materials used for experimental
conditions (e.g., movie clip, music track,
stopwatch, etc.)
___________________ Subsection
Describe how you ran the study
Must provide enough details for someone
else to replicate
Random assignment procedure for
experimentsi
Can merge with Participants subsection if
you only used survey data
Very similar to what you wrote for
Assignment 7 (except you’ll need to change phrasing to past tense)
