Psychology

For this assignment you will complete the Introduction portion of your paper.  The Introduction should be about one page in length and will respond to two critical questions asked by ALL researchers in ALL research efforts.  Those questions are:

1.   WHY did the authors of your article – the researchers – decide to do this research?  WHAT was the research question (or questions) they asked (their HYPOTHESIS)?  You must be VERY SPECIFIC in responding to this first question because the rest of your paper will hinge on it.

2.  HOW did the researchers approach their research …what METHOD of research did they use?  Did they conduct a true experiment?  A correlational research design?  A longitudinal design?  WHAT?  More often than not, these two questions will be answered in the Abstract of your article.  If they are not, read their Introduction and Methods sections and the answers will be there.  Tell me WHY the authors decided to use this particular method of research.