Introduction
This comes at the beginning of the introduction and is meant to intrigue the reader
This type of graph, typically featuring a line of best fit, is needed in the results section to demonstrate the relationship between variables
What is a scatterplot?
These are suggestions for how later research should build on findings from the current study
What are future directions?
Headings and subheadings should be in this text format
What is bold?
An iron rod getting stuck in this railroad worker's brain changed the way we approach psychology
Who is Phineas Gage?
This statement comes at the end of the introduction and predicts the study's outcome based on previous research
What is a hypothesis?
It is essential to report these kind of statistics, such as standard deviation, in your results section
What are descriptive statistics?
This part of the discussion acknowledges weaknesses and constraints to the design of the current study
What are limitations of the study?
Sources are organized in this way in the references section
This theory of emotion states that how we feel depends on interpretation of the physical changes (autonomic, behavioral) that occur in the body as a response to an emotional event
What is the James-Lange Theory of emotion?
Evidence used in the literature review to give background on variables comes from these kind of sources
What are peer reviewed research articles?
These three components make up the method section
3-5 of these, which highlight your paper's focus should be included after the abstract
What are keywords?
The parenthetical citation you would use for a peer reviewed article written in 2025 by these authors: Bruce Wayne, Uma Thurman, Jordan Carter, Amy Winehouse
What is (Wayne et al., 2025)
A type of amnesia following an injury, where a temporally-graded disruption of episodic and semantic memories occurs
What is retrograde amnesia?
This essential part of the introduction explains what the current study will do for the field moving forward
What is the purpose of the study?
In the method section, participant demographics are given. Other than a percentage breakdown of gender and age range, this other demographic statistic must be reported.
What is the mean (and standard deviation) age of participants?
Even if your findings are null, you must discuss these to explain how your findings are applicable to everyday life
What are implications of the study?
Something is incorrect about this APA citation (other than not having a DOI):
Sowislo, J. F., Orth, U. (2013). Does low self-esteem predict depression and anxiety? A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. Psychological Bulletin, 139(1), 213-240.
What is the journal name is not italicized?
These types of symptoms, associated with schizophrenia, include hallucinations and delusions
What are positive symptoms?
This is the proposed shape a research paper should be in
What is an hourglass?
These variables have to be calculated into a single score, with the calculation and summed range reported while describing measures.
What are aggregated variables?
For this assignment, an abstract should be no longer than this many words
What is 150 words?
Would also accept 250 bc that's what the APA guide says
Other than a DOI, something is missing from this APA citation:
Temiz, Z., & Cömert, I. 2018. The relationship between life satisfaction, attachment styles and psychological resilience in university students. The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences, 31(3), 274-283.
What are parentheses around the year?
This is the term for atypical color vision, caused by a genetic mutation that prevents the formation of two or three of the cone types
What is monochromatopia