Research Project on Faithfulness and CommittedRelationships in College
#1. Can you complete the following on now deciding which twoarticles seem the most interesting/relevant to you usingpsychINFO (apa.org) and read those. Empiricalarticles will have an introduction, method section, resultssection, and discussion section. As much as possible, make sure thearticle you choose for completing this assignment is directlyrelated to the topic you think your study will be about. Once youhave read the articles, for the one you thought was most useful toyou, please answer the questions below. Be sure to use your ownwords AND to not use quotes instead of summarizing the information.Put the references for the article you are summarize in APAstyle.
a) Describe, in several sentences, what are the main pointsgiven in the introduction of the article? In one or two sentences –summarize the main point of what the author(s) is saying in theintro regarding what past research on the topic has found. Then, inone or two sentences – summarize the main point of what theauthor(s) is saying in the intro regarding what past research hasyet to examine on the topic. Then, give the purpose of the study.Then, where applicable – give the researcher’s hypothesis?(Whenever the researcher gives an actual hypothesis, be sure tosummarize the actual hypothesis and not just phrase it as aresearch purpose. For example, a research purpose would besomething like this – the current study sought to examine theeffect of watching the news on racism, whereas a hypothesis is morespecific – such as the hypothesis for the current study was thatparticipants who watch the news will have higher levels of racismthan those who don’t watch the news).
b) Describe, in several sentences, what are main points given inthe method section of the article?
c) Describe, in several sentences, what are the main pointsgiven in the results section of the article? Be sure that you givethe main results that relate to the hypothesis --- whereapplicable.
d) Describe, in several sentences, what are the main pointsgiven in the discussion of the article? What future research doesthe author(s) suggest? e) What did YOU learn from this article thatcan help you with thinking about your topic and/or future study? Bevery detailed and thoughtful here.
#2. How do the two articles you read relate to each other? Basedon your reading of both of these articles, describe any specificideas about what you might to study? Alternatively, on the basis ofyour reading, have you ruled out anything that you don’t want tostudy? Fully explain your thinking.
