2023 Fall_Final Paper Instructions

PSYC 4344 ONLINE FALL 2023 Final Paper Instructions Choose one of the two journal articles from Canvas (PDFs for each article are uploaded under the “Final Paper” module, under “Journal Articles for Final Paper”) and write a 1500-word paper. Your choices of journal articles include: Montoya, J. A., Wittenburg, D., & Martinez, V. (2016). Alcohol use among Hispanic college students along the US/Mexico border. The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse , 42 (6), 707-714. Wong, R. Y. M., & Hong, Y. Y. (2005). Dynamic influences of culture on cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma. Psychological science , 16 (6), 429-434. For the final paper, you should address all of the following points and answer the questions listed below: 1. Summarize the paper (ALL questions must be answered) o What were the hypotheses? o What methods did the author(s) use? o What were the results? o What did the author(s) conclude? 2. Comment on the article’s theories/methods (TWO questions must be answered) o Did the authors provide any alternative explanations and if so, what were they? o Did you have any questions/comments about the methods that were used? o What improvements to the methods would you recommend in order to exclude any possible confounding factors? 3. Come up with relevant new ideas that could be further explored (THREE questions must be answered) o What could be further investigated along this line of research? o Were there any variables that were excluded in the current study that could/should be included in the future? o Would the study yield different results if it was conducted on a different population? o Could a different method have been used in the current study? Would the alternative method yield different results? Please answer the questions in your own words . Direct extraction of information from the journal article must be cited in proper APA format (you can use Purdue OWL online for instructions on how to do this; both in-text citations and reference page are required ONLY if you choose to include citations ). If you do not do this, it will be considered plagiarism.