PSYC20008 Method Draft Template

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PSYC20008 Method Draft Template PSYC20008 Teaching Team Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne The Method is not included in the 1500-word limit. Students can write their own Method or adapt a Method from this draft template. In preparation for Lab Class 2, complete as much of this template as you can by filling in the blank spaces and following the instructions in square brackets. Some of this information is already available to you. Other information will need to wait until you have access to the dataset. Some information will be the same for all lab reports. Other information (e.g., information relating to the second hypothesis) will vary across students. You will be consolidating your understanding of the Method and sharing answers with other students in Lab Class 2. 1

Method Participants [Fill in the blank spaces.] We invited PSYC20008 students during Semester 1 of 2024 to participate in our study. At the beginning of the semester, there were ______ PSYC20008 students. _______ participated in our study. There were ____ female participants, ____ male participants, ___ non-binary participants, ____ genderqueer students, and ___ who preferred not to disclose their gender. _____ participants were international students and ____ were domestic students. The mean age of the sample was ____ years ( SD = ____), ranging from ___ years to ___ years. When asked to demonstrate their understanding of the N-back task, approximately [one third / fewer than half / half / more than half] the sample ( n = ______ , _____%) gave correct answers. These participants are included in the first analysis. [If using a different group of the sample for hypothesis 2, describe the distribution of the variable(s) that you used to identify that group. If using the same subset for hypothesis 2, describe the sample characteristics of the group who answered the n -back trial question correctly.] Measures [Fill in the blank spaces.] We developed an online survey that included single-item questions about demographic information (_______, ________, ________, ________, and - _________), linguality (________, __________, __________, ________, _______, and ______), a cognitive test measuring ______, and a scale of psychological wellbeing ( [Name of scale] ; [Authors of the scale] ) [exclude the variables that are not relevant for your analyses] . The final part of the survey included questions about experiences that might have distracted participants as they completed the survey (_____, _______, ______, and _______). These were not collected for analysis, but instead were used to check for possible confounding cognitive factors. 2

Cognitive Control We showed participants a brief description of n -back tasks, including an example that demonstrated a word that had a “2-back match”, and a word that did not have a “2-back match”. We followed this example with a trial question to test participants’ understanding of the procedure of 2-back tasks. Participants who answered this question incorrectly _______. The n- back task presented a ________ of 15 words. For each word, participants indicated whether the word matched with the word that showed two-words earlier. Participants responses are scored as _________. These scores were converted to a categorical variables by __________. [Other key variable] [Describe other key variables that are relevant for your second analysis here. Revise the lab report guide and describe the variable in your own words. How many items in the survey were used for that variable? What were the response options? What are the categories for that variable?] Procedure [Fill in the blank spaces.] We invited students to complete an online survey, for a five-week period spanning ___________________. We introduced the survey in more detail over a variety of early-semester activities, including ________ and _______. The survey was designed to take ___ minutes to complete. Most participants took ___ minutes to complete the survey. Participation in the survey was ________________. At the end of the survey, participants had the option to view, download, and keep their responses. Once the survey closed, the teaching team downloaded and organized the data. This included ___________ and ___________. Any continuous variables were transformed into __________. When the dataset was organized, the teaching team shared the dataset with _________. 3

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Design [Fill in the blank spaces.] For Hypothesis 1, the variable “_______” will be used to select a subset of the data comprising __________. A ___________ will be used to test the relationship between language use (monolingual, bilingual, multilingual) and ______ (______, ______, ______). Standardised residuals will be used to reveal any significant differences between _______ and _______ within the contingency table. [Describe the variables, the subset of the sample, and the analysis that will be used to address Hypothesis 2]. 4

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