175-102 Psychology as a Natural Science
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175-102 Psychology as a Natural Science: Albany Internal Assignment One: Written Assignment: Lab Report
Due dates
• Please see the “Assessments” page on Stream for all details relating to due dates.
Overall Grade Weighting - 50% of Final Mark
• Part 1A = 25%
• Part 1B = 25%
Learning outcomes being assessed
1. Explain methods, theories, and findings in fundamental areas of psychological science.
2. Apply psychological theories and findings to explain human cognition and behaviour.
3. Use appropriate psychological research methods to test hypotheses.
4. Prepare and understand a psychological research report at an introductory level.
5. Critically evaluate research methods and findings in psychological science
Word length
• Your Part 1A submission must be between 750-2000 words.
• Your Part 1B submission must not exceed 3000 words.
• This word count includes all text in your report, including your title page and references page(s). Please note that this wordcount includes your in-text citations. There is no penalty in the rubric for exceeding these limits. Instead, your marker will simply stop marking at 2000 words for part 1A and 3000 words for part 1B. This means all text after these end points in 1A and 1B will not be marked.
Task
Take part in the online experiment. Using the shared class data, you will write a psychology research report.
● Part 1A: In part 1A you will write the Title page, Title, Introduction, Method, and References for the report (50 marks)
● Part 1B: In part 1B you will write the full report. This will require you to improve your title page, introduction, method, and references sections that you submitted for 1A using the feedback you received from your marker. You will also add the Abstract, Results, and Discussion sections to this same document and submit everything as a single report (50 marks)
This assignment will give you practical experience at conducting experimental research. This will help you understand the research process and will give you a chance to try a different type of formal writing - the research report. The experiment is called the Stroop experiment. It demonstrates how we automatically read words and how this can interfere with other tasks.
Useful sources of information
• Textbook:https://nobaproject.com/textbooks/aaron-drummond-new-textbook
o Chapter 2: Why science?
o Chapter 3: Research designs
Here are some articles to read that will help you understand the Stroop effect.
This is the original article describing the Stroop effect which is named after the author who described the effect. Note that there were a few earlier discussions of the effect, but they were printed in German and are not as famous (Germany was the birthplace of experimental psychology in about 1880). Please note that these are all available in the Course Resources folder.
Stroop, J. R. (1935). Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions. Journal of
Experimental Psychology, 18(6), 643-662.http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/h0054651Here’s another articIe that is more recent.
Stirling, N. (1979). Stroop Interference: An Input and an Output Phenomenon. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 31(1), 121一132.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14640747908400712
This next article is a comprehensive review of the Stroop effect. Note that you DO NOT need to know this article inside-out 一 there are a number of complexities
MacLeod, C. M. (1991). Half a century of research on the Stroop effect: an integrative review. Psychological Bulletin, (2), 163.
Here is an easy-to-read Scientific American article to get you started:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/seeing-science-exploring-color- perception-with-the-stroop-effect/
2025-09-05