Test Bank For The Psychology of Women (Instructor’s Manual) Seventh Edition by Margaret W. Matlin’s.
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Test Bank For The Psychology of Women (Instructor’s Manual) Seventh Edition by Margaret W. Matlin’s. PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN
RESEARCH PROJECT HANDOUT
Psychology of Women
Psychology 308
Psychology of Women Research Project
The purpose of this project is to introduce you to research about the ...
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Test Bank For The Psychology of Women (Instructor’s Manual)
Seventh Edition by Margaret W. Matlin’s.
, PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN
RESEARCH PROJECT HANDOUT
Psychology of Women
Psychology 308
Psychology of Women Research Project
The purpose of this project is to introduce you to research about the Psychology of
Women. You are not expected to conduct the ideal, perfectly controlled experiment. Instead, I
hope that this exercise will provide you with a first-hand experience of the kinds of issues that
researchers need to consider and the variety of challenges that research often presents.
The projects generally fall into four categories:
1. Archival analyses, or quantified inspections of magazines, books, and other aspects of media,
etc. A typical project here would be whether males and females are represented differently in
the illustrations in elementary-school mathematics textbooks.
2. Questionnaires about interests, activities, and beliefs. A typical project would be whether
students think that a wife should perform a greater portion of the household tasks than a
husband performs.
3. Naturalistic observation, or recording of behavior in a natural setting. A typical project would
be to determine whether girls and boys differ in their aggressive behavior at a public
playground.
4. Experiments, with the controlled manipulation of variables. A typical project would be the
study about aggression, described in the preview on p. 2.
In all cases, you must test at least three hypotheses. Each hypothesis typically compares
two numbers (e.g., “This sample of mathematics textbooks will show more males than females in
the illustrations.”).
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Preparing the Preview of Your Paper
As specified in the course syllabus, you must turn in your paper preview in advance. This
precaution is designed to assure that your topic is appropriate from the standpoint of both
research design and ethics. I want to make certain that you have chosen a topic that can inspire a
good paper!
It’s fine to change topics, but you must provide me with a written copy of your new
proposal before you begin the project. Again, this precaution is essential because I’ll need to
make certain that your new proposal is methodologically and ethically appropriate. For this
reason, I will not accept your actual paper unless I have approved your preview. (If you turn in a
paper—for which I did not approve the preview—you will receive a score of 0 out of 55 on your
paper.)
Your paper preview must describe at least two of your three hypotheses, and it should
provide a clear description of how you will test these hypotheses. If your preview is not
satisfactory, you will lose points, and you will get a late start in conducting your research.
I will distribute more information about the preview in several weeks. This handout will also
describe the information you need to include in your preview. Here is an example of a good
preview.
Preview: Do People Judge an Aggressive Woman Differently from an Aggressive Man?
The goal of my project will be to determine whether people judge an aggressive act differently, depending
on the gender of the aggressive person. I will be constructing four separate vignettes, each describing an individual
who is being aggressive. Here is a sample vignette, describing a male being aggressive:
Joe is a 20-year-old college student. He has been having trouble with his car, so he took it in to the repair
shop this morning. They promised that they would have his car ready by 3:00 this afternoon. When Joe returns to the
shop at 3:00, he is told that it will not be ready until 4:00. At the top of his lungs, he screams, “You’ve got to be
kidding! You promised me it would be ready by now! You can bet I’ll never come back here again!”
How appropriate do you think Joe’s response was? (circle a number)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
not at all appropriate very appropriate
I plan to test 40 Geneseo students, and I’ll gather my sample (a convenience sample) on two different days from
people passing through the College Union. I’ll have four groups of 10 students each:
1. 10 males, each judging four vignettes about males;
2. 10 females, each judging four vignettes about males;
3. 10 males, each judging four vignettes about females (i. e, the same vignette as above, but using a female’s name);
4. 10 females, judging vignettes about females.
So far, I have two hypotheses:
1. People will give higher ratings to males than to females; that is, they will judge an aggressive male’s actions to be
more appropriate than an aggressive female’s actions.
2. Male participants will be more likely than female participants to show this kind of biased judgment.
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Ethical Considerations
In class, we will consider ethical issues involved in studying human behavior. Three
especially important issues are potential harm, anonymity, and informed consent.
One of the most important concerns is that we must not psychologically harm the
individuals we study. For that reason, certain topics will be considered “out of bounds” for this
project. These topics are sexuality (e.g., sexual behavior, sexual orientation, abortion, unwanted
pregnancy), violence (e.g., rape, battering, sexual harassment, child abuse), and drug issues (e.g.,
personal experience with alcohol and other drugs). If you turn in a preview that focuses on any of
these topics, I will automatically reject the preview. However, you can conduct archival analyses
on these topics because no people would be tested.
We must also protect the anonymity of all participants. “Anonymity” means that the
experimenter cannot identify which person provided which data. Thus, the participant’s name
must not appear anywhere on any questionnaire or data sheet. Furthermore, data on individual
people should be kept confidential and should not be supplied to anyone. It is important that we
respect individuals’ rights to privacy. We must not harm humans in the process of learning more
about them.
If you conduct an actual experiment that does not include a written response sheet, you
must obtain informed consent from each participant. Ethical guidelines specify that each
participant must sign a sheet saying that they are participating without coercion and that they will
experience no harm. We cannot require informed consent for naturalistic observation studies (by
their very nature). Therefore, we will poll the class to determine whether any questionable
naturalistic-observation study does indeed seem harmful. (Informed consent is not relevant for
archival analyses. Informed consent is also not relevant for questionnaires; the SUNY Geneseo
ethics review board says that a person automatically gives informed consent when she or he fills
out a questionnaire.)
The Write-up for Your Project
You must prepare two complete copies of your paper prior to submitting the paper. Keep
one copy, and turn the other copy in to me. This will also be important if your paper is lost. (In
Fall, 2004, a student failed to make a copy of her paper. She lost her paper, and her computer
crashed. She therefore had to write it over again.) After I’ve turned back your graded paper, you
will give me either an unmarked copy or a photocopy of your graded paper for my files. You
should keep the original paper—with my notations—to use as a guideline for your future writing.
The report must be written in standard APA style. Details are available in a book on
reserve called Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2001, 5th
edition). The sample paper shown on pages 306–316 is especially helpful.
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