escription: The Practical Assignment Part1- Introduction and analysis plan assignment consists of a 600-word report in which you give a brief literature review (300 words) associated with the question you plan to address in your practical assignment. You also give an overview of your planned methods and analyses for your practical assignment (300 words). Practical Assignment Part 1-Introduction and analysis plan; 600 words total 1. The topic of your study (300 words) You are free to dream up virtually any idea for investigation that you wish. The only requirements are that the topic be drawn from some area of psychology and that it be something sensible and realistic as a subject for study. You will also need to consider the question of a statistical procedure in choosing your topic. If you are not comfortable with the concepts underlying, say, factor analysis, then it would be foolish to choose an experimental question that can only be resolved with the use of factor analysis. You should commence your assignment by very briefly outlining your idea for the study. This section should thus include some brief background and literature review. This section should be roughly 300 words –that is-half of the assignment. 2. Hypothesis You should present a single hypothesis that your experiment is designed to test. This should follow logically from the topic. For example, if you have decided to investigate whether playing violent computer games increases the incidence of aggressive behaviour in the schoolyard, then your formal hypothesis might run something like this: "It is hypothesised that children who are permitted to play violent computer games will exhibit a greater incidence of aggressive behaviour than those who play non-violent games." The important point is that the hypothesis must (a) represent the essential point of your investigation and (b) provide a basis for a clear statistical test. In the context of the above example, you would most probably use a one-way between-groups analysis of variance to assess the significance of the difference in aggression scores between the violent-games group and the non-violent-games group (note that a t-test would provide the same information, but t-tests are not included in the statistical procedures studied in this unit). This statistical test should be significant in order to fulfil the requirement of this exercise that the hypothesis be confirmed. 3. Planned design for your experiment and planned analyses This is your opportunity to receive feedback that will guide your work on Part 2 (below). You should include your planned design (see #2 below) and also a small section on planned analyses (see #4 below) for the practical assignment. You will receive useful feedback for Practical Assignment Part 2 only to the degree that you submit an experiment plan that is both detailed and thorough. This section should provide specific details that reflect the fact that you have systematically considered your experiment. You should also include a brief section on your planned analyses. However, because analyses necessarily follow from your experimental design-the major focus for this assignment is ensuring that your experimental design is sound and appropriately addresses your hypothesis. #2. Designing your experiment Your next task is to design your experiment. This will require you to decide upon such things as (the list below is intended to be illustrative, rather than exhaustive): - the nature and size of the participant sample - independent variable(s) and associated levels - dependent variable(s) or measures - construction of stimulus material - experimental procedure - consideration of ethical problems - control of possible confounds and noise variables. You should describe your design in one or more paragraphs, but remember to keep it as concise as possible. You should provide no more detail than is necessary to make it clear to your reader what you intend to do, and to assure them that you are doing it properly. Keep in mind your word limit. (The list of pointers above has to be included into the literature review.) #4. Analysing the data You should then use the Results section of your report to portray the outcome of your data generation and juggling efforts. Describe your SPSS analysis of the data as though it were real data that you collected (i.e. we don't want details of the data juggling exercise). Attach copies of all relevant SPSS raw output to your report as an appendix, including (where relevant, and where not included in the body of your report) summary tables, tables of means, and tests of assumptions. You would normally present an appropriate graph or other figure relating to your results, but this will depend to some degree on the statistical procedure you have employed and it may not always be appropriate to include a graph. You should also include a table summarising means across various conditions (unless this is adequately represented in a graph). Given the variety of statistical procedures available, it is not possible to specify precisely what sort of statistical information should be extracted from the SPSS output for special presentation in this section of the report. However, the lectures, the lecture notes in the Learning Materials, the workshops, SPSS text, and (most especially) relevant journal articles in the area, will all provide you with a great deal of information about what kind of information should be extracted for special consideration and presentation. You should also feel free to use any of the statistical procedures covered in this unit, whether or not they have been dealt with in lectures at the time you complete this assignment. Not all of the statistical procedures to be considered in this Unit will have been dealt with in lectures by the time your assignment is due. This, however, should be no obstacle to your use of a procedure that has not been formally covered in lectures. The Learning Materials and your SPSS text should provide the basic information you need to apply the procedure to your experimental data, together with supplementary information from other texts and journal articles, if necessary. Please note carefully: it is not acceptable to base your report on a statistical procedure that is not specifically covered as a topic in this Unit. Some examples of procedures that are NOT acceptable in themselves are t-tests, correlations, and simple linear regression. You may, however, include these procedures provided that they do not form the main vehicle for statistical analysis in your report. I've the idea of the literature review to have the dependent variable (DV) as aggression scores and independent variables (IVs) as gender consisting 2 factors of male and females and personality consisting 3 factors (you can decide which 3 personality to include) that can be supported by researches that all those factors would affect the aggression and how was the aggression score significantly caused by the factor. 10-12 references are needed. Assignment Weightage: 30%