Description: Students will be asked to carry-out a plan, analyze data for, and write up results to demonstrate how to organize, summarize data, interpret. At the same time, communicate their findings. The project emphasis will be on four issues: (1) generating a question answered using statistics, (2) deciding on the appropriate statistical technique to be used, (3) using SPSS to conduct the statistical analyses, and (4) writing up and interpreting the results using correct APA style.
Directions: Pick a topic of interest to you within psychology. Within that topic, ask a research question and hypothesis. Using your question and the provided simulated (not real) data, determine which variables code what variables (hint: descriptive analyses can help you determine this!). Then, determine an appropriate analytic plan and use SPSS to conduct the appropriate analyses. You are expected to conduct at least three different descriptive analyses and at least two different inferential analyses. Finally, write up your research question, hypotheses, description of used variables, analytic plan, and interpretation of your results (what the numbers mean) using APA style. Include (and describe) all relevant tables and at least two graphs.
Simulated Data: See the SPSS Project Module (.sav is for SPSS; other formats provided in case it does not work)
Additional Resources: See the SPSS Project
Module
APA Style: https://apastvle.apa.org/stvle- qrammar-quidelines/paper-format
Your final submission must be a Microsoft Word file (.doc or .docx). Other file formats (including, but not limited to: photographs, screenshots, Apple Pages documents, other file formats) will not be accepted and will result in a zero (0) on this assignment with no opportunities to make it up. If you do not have access to Microsoft Word, Google Drive allows documents prepared in it to be downloaded in the proper format. However, I strongly recommend obtaining Microsoft Office for your use in other classes.