Homework 6 APA Discussion Section Objective: You must complete the results and discussion sections of your APA research report. Discussion Section: The information presented after the results section is the discussion section. This section of the paper should be 1 - 2 page long. Use the following guidelines: ? The Discussion section will go after your Method and Results sections. This is where you interpret the results and discuss how they relate to the theory under investigation. ? Start with specifically talking about the results of the current experiment and then broaden it up to generalize to the overall topic. Things to discuss (notice how these points start out specific to the current experiment and broaden back up to the overall topic under investigation): ? Were the results as expected? Give specific examples from the data to support your statement. For example, if you claim that there was evidence supporting the theory (top- down/bottom-up processing), give specific information about it. Then explain how these examples show support for the theory. ? Do the results agree or disagree with the results of studies described the introduction section of the paper? State specific examples of how the results compare to the results of at least two of the studies presented in the introduction section of the paper. Be sure to include a citation for the studies mentioned. ? What do the collective results mean? If we found significant differences between the conditions, how does this support the theory under discussion? Explain. This should be a more general discussion of the theory. ? How could the current experiment be improved? ? Based on this stated improvement, what should be investigated next?

Error Rate Results Table 2 The Effect of Congruence on Error Rate 1.8 The Effect of Congruence on Error Rate 1.6 1.4 NOT TO BE COPIED AND PASTED 1.2 Congruent Incongruent NOT TO BE COPIED AND INTO YOUR PAPER 0.8 ASTED INTO YOUR PAPER Error Rate Mean 0.21 1.31 C.6 0.4 SEM 0.11 0.25 0.2 0 Congruent Incongruent CongruenceReaction Time Results The Effect of Congruence on Reaction Time (sec) Table 1 45 40 The Effect of Congruence on Reaction Time (sec) 35 30 NOT TO BE COPIED AND NOT TO BE COPIED AND Congruent Incongruent 25 PASTED INTO YOUR PAPER 20 Reaction Time (sec) Mean TED INTO YOUR-PAPERS 15 17.63 36.85 10 5 SEM 0.58 1.38 O Congruent Incongruent Congruence