Review Form for Journal Articles

For Experimenters (ANSWER KEY)

 

Instructions:

 

• Please attach a hard copy of the article and this completed form and place it in the Psychology Dept. mailbox (57 Coming Street) of Carol Toris, Ph.D.
• Please be sure to create an electronic copy of this document by saving your word file as an html file.
• Email the html. file of the completed answer key (as an attachment) to torisc@cofc.edu   

 

Other reminders:

 

            Keep in mind that the students reading and answering questions about your article are PSYC 103 students.  Therefore, please attempt to express acceptable answers to the questions below using language/terminology appropriate for someone who has not yet taken PSYC 211 or 220. 

 

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1.  Title of the article __________________________________________________________________________________________   __________________________________________________________________________________________

 

2.  Author(s)

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3.  Main Hypothesis (e.g., why was the study conducted?  What questions did the investigators examine?)

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4.  Procedures Employed  (Briefly describe what was done in the study?  What was measured? Were any variables manipulated?)  

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5.  Main Findings  (What were the results or conclusions of the study?  What are the implication of these results for the problem or issue that was being investigated?)

 

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6.  Comments (Do you think this study adequately tested the hypothesis?  Why or why not?  How would you improve upon it?) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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