Mini Lab

Instructios

For this assignment, you participated in an online experiment onfacial recognition.https://coursecontent.umgc.edu/umgc/sas/psyc/psyc300/Labs/FRLab/facialRecognition.html. Using the data that I gave you and your statistics from the analysis, you will write a short lab report (2-3 pages) inAPA Style consisting of an Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion, and References. Your statistics are the same as the Mini Lab Stats Quiz.

Doing the experiment online is only to give you an idea of how the experiment works. You will write the mini lab report as if you were the researcher who conducted the experiment.

Please use this article by Rehman and Herlitz (2007) as a reference in your report:Facial Recognition Article.https://leocontent.umgc.edu/content/dam/course-content/tus/psyc/psyc-300/document/Sex%20and%20Facial%20Recognition%202%20%281%29.pdf

You should not summarize this article as your entire paper. Use this article to help write your introduction and then use the data I provided for the rest of your paper.

Here is the grading rubric for this report:Mini Lab Reporthttps://learn.umgc.edu/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=1310244&type=rubric&rCode=UMUC-7146908

Here is the data to use for your Mini Lab:

males	females
3	7
6	6
6	7
4	8
6	7
6	10
6	8
5	8
3	8
3	10
6	8
6	9
9	9
5	8
4	8
5	9
7	9
6	8
6	8
7	9

HINT: Your table should be a summary of your statistical results. Do not include the raw data (as seen above) in your paper.

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This short report is to be written as formal research report. As you read the Rehnman and Herlitz (2007) article, note the formality. There is no use of "I" or "We".

The report consists of specific sections with headings (refer to APA style): https://libguides.umgc.edu/apa-document-formatting

Title Page

Introduction

Methods

Results

Discussion

References

You must make a reference to another research study in your intro section. Use the Rehnman and Herlitz (2007) article I provided if you can't/don't want to find one of your own. Your intro/lit review should address these questions: What is the topic - what is Facial Recognition? (It is not about the technology/software used at the airport) Why are you studying this topic? Why is it important to know if women are better than men? Must also state the hypothesis of your study: Women will perform better than men....

The methods section has three parts: the participants, materials and procedures, and the data analysis techniques. The methods section must state how the data (and what data was collected) was analyzed. You will use an independent samples t test with an alpha level of .05 to determine significance of the difference between the means of the two groups. You will not get more than 7 points for your methods section if you do not say this.

Results section must present both the descriptive stats (mean, sd, sem) and the t test stats ( t value, p value df). Must use a graph or table. I prefer a bar graph to show the two means of the groups. You can use a table for the descriptive stats.

The discussion section must state the conclusion with respect to the hypothesis. Did your results support it or not? Do the results support previous research? Use a citation. The discussion should also present ideas for future research. What variables could you add or change? Also discuss what are the implications of the results. Who cares? What impact do these results have in the real world? any?

Note, APA style is Times New Roman font, size 12, double-spaced.

I don't have a sample but here is an outline to follow:

Intro section:

What is facial recognition?

Why do we study it?

What do we already know about it - what have previous research showed - what previous study was done - what did they do and what did they find?

State your hypothesis for your study (It is hypothesized that ? will perform better than ? on facial recognition).

Methods (3 parts here)

1. participants - how many, who were they, where did they come from...

2. procedures - describe the details of the facial recognition task - what were they shown, what did they do, how many photos did they look at, how long...describe the photos...

3. what data was recorded - how was the data analyzed (with a two sample t test)

Results:

First put a few sentences about the mean, SD and SEMs. Then put a table or graph. If graph - a two bar- bar graph with one bar for each mean.

Then a sentence or two with the t test results - t value, p value and df

Discussion:

State the finding.

Was the hypothesis supported or not?

Did the results support those of previous research, if yes, how, if not, how not?

Were there any limitations to the study? - like small sample size - that could have influenced your results

What could you study in the future? What variables could you add/change?

Why are your findings interesting?