Negative Correlation Would Show Psyc 1 Ccsf Child
- a sample group – who do you want/going to get in your
study? where are they from? how will you get them to participate? Talk
about the skew – what are they like? (20%)
- Example: I want Chinese American women between the ages of 18-50,
either born in the U.S. or immigrated before age 6. I want women who
have been immersed in Chinese America, so I don’t think I want ethnic
Chinese women adopted by European American families. I want both
English-speaking and non-English speaking, so I will have to get a
translator if necessary.
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- I will have to limit my sample to women in the Bay Area because I
can’t/won’t travel to other cities (this was before the Internet).
- To get my sample, I will go to different places in the Bay Area to
tell people about my study; for example, I will go to Chinese American
churches, CCSF and SFSU classrooms, and Chinatown service organizations.
I will ask my Chinese American friends to pass the information on to
their female friends and post my flyers in the break rooms at their
workplace.
- Given your recruitment strategy, what kind of participants will you
get? Explain why you think so, and explain how you think this might
affect your study.
- For example, since I will be recruiting from Chinese American
churches and colleges and service organizations, I will probably get
blah blah kind of women from blah blah backgrounds because blah blah
reason
- Because these participants are probably from this blah blah background, they might respond in this blah blah way on my test.
- a design – how are you going to set up your study (experiment or correlation)? How will you know if your hypothesis is proven or disproven? (30%)
- choose the design you would use
- You can only choose between an experiment or a correlation. Both
research methods are discussed in your textbook. If you choose a
different research method, you will earn a 0 on this portion of the
paper.
- Explain the design to your reader (give a definition and explain how it works; use your own words)
- Describe how you would apply the design to your sample to do your study
- For example, for my study, I did a correlational study; a
correlational study is used to blah blah blah; its purpose is to blah
blah blah (I am not going to describe it, but I expect you to do it for your paper; use your textbook [but don’t plagiarize]).
- In my correlational study, I gave the women a survey on identity and
a survey on traditionalism. Then I looked at whether there was
relationship between the scores in traditionalism and identity.
- Explain how you will know if your hypothesis is correct or incorrect*
- If XYZ occurs, then my hypothesis is correct.
- A positive correlation tells me that blah blah blah
- If this occurs, that means the Chinese American women’s scores on my scales would show blah blah
- A negative correlation would show blah blah blah
- If this occurs, that means blah blah blah
- If ABC occurs, then my hypothesis is incorrect.
- A zero correlation tells me that blah blah blah
- If this occurs, this tells me that blah blah blah
*your hypothesis will be explained differently depending on what kind
of design you use (i.e., experiments and surveys will have different
guidelines)
