Instruction
Determine which research question or phenomenon you and your group (if you have one) wish to do. After, individually look up five articles that are relevant to the psychological phenomenon. Further, by summarizing and organizing the literature, you’ll find you understand it better (I know that I do).
1. Find 5 articles that relate to the research question you have decided on for your project. Turn in a copy of the first page of each of the articles (i.e., not the whole article). Your group should not be turning in the same five articles.
2. Write a one-paragraph synopsis of each of the research articles that could be included in the introduction to your own research paper. Include the following information in your synopsis:
a. The article information in APA format (see the 7th edition of the APA manual if necessary).
b. In the actual synopsis, include
i. The hypothesis that was tested;
ii. Past research that supports the hypothesis (i.e., the major theory or papers they drew from in order to form their hypothesis).
iii. In layman’s terms, what did they do to test the hypothesis;
iv. If the hypothesis was supported or not;
v. How this support, or lack thereof, should be interpreted (i.e., what does it really mean?).
For future reference, what you are doing for this assignment is called an annotated bibliography.