Psy 301 lab 5
Lab Report
- Using your outline, assess your results, and place them in the broader literature, and mention limitations of your study and future directions by turning your fragments into whole sentences and full paragraphs (complete with transitions).
- Do not report statistics in this section!
- Watch your tenses – use past tense to describe your results but present tense for general statements about human behavior.
Assess results
Refer to hypotheses
Supported/not supported
*Watch tenses
Link results to broader literature (refer back to background article)
Describe how it fits (not just that it does or doesn’t)
Alternative explanations
Correctly cite where needed
*Watch tenses
Limitations of study/future directions
Why are these limitations?
Explain the why you suggested the future directions
*Watch tensesLimitations of study/future directions