Tell a story
The information you should provide in your practical report.
The sections of the practical report
Title （标题） Abstract （摘要） Introduction （介绍）
Tips
1. The second part of the introduction outlines the
purpose of your own study. 2. After confirming the specific problem you investigated, you need to clarify the way in which your study tackles this problem.
Method-Subsections
• Design（实验设计）: here you talk about the formal design features of your study, using the appropriate terminology (e.g., for an experiment, things like the name of the design, what your independent and dependent variables were, and so on). • Participants（被试）: here you describe the relevant features of the participants (those from whom you obtained scores on your dependent variables).
3. Finally, you should describe clearly the predictions
that you derive from your experimental hypothesis or hypotheses.
Chapter 3: The method section （方法部分）
Method-Subsections(cont.)
• Apparatus（仪器）, or materials（材料）, or apparatus and materials: here you describe the equipment or materials that you used (or both). • Procedure（过程）: here you give a blow-by-blow（详尽） account of precisely what you said and did to your participants in the study.
Outline the following features
1. Briefly state the problem that you chose to investigate. This should, of course, be clear from what you have written in the introduction so far. Nevertheless, it is good policy to confirm the problem. Then neither you, nor your reader, should be confused over the issue that
General strategy that you might employ runs as follows:
1. The purpose of the introduction is to put your study into its research context, by providing your reader with an introduction to the background material (existing findings and theoretical ideas （已有发现和理论）) relevant to it. 2. This material is presented in the first part of the introduction. The second part of the introduction presents the reader with a brief description （简要）of your study. 3. Increasing emphasis is placed on the first part as you become more experienced and the reports that you write begin to emulate research papers.
General strategy that you might employ runs as follows:
1. Perhaps open with a statement about the general area or phenomenon under investigation (e.g., memory, attention, attitudes, rumour). 2. Then talk about the particular aspect of this topic that your study specifically addressed (e.g., the impact of mnemonics, the “cocktail party” phenomenon (鸡尾酒会现象), attitude change （态度 改变）, how rumours are spread （谣言的传播途径）). 3. Then, with the problem nicely set up, you are ready to introduce your own study to your reader.
you tackled.
2. Give your reader a general idea of how you went about tackling it. There are always different ways to test the same issue. Here you need to describe in general terms the way that you actually chose to do it. 3. State clearly and accurately the predictions that you derive from the experimental hypothesis (实验假设) (or hypotheses) and clarify how your experiment tests these.
Third Editon Peter Harris
Part 1 : Writing reports Part 2 : Design and statistics
Part 1 : Writing reports
Chapter 1: Getting started Chapter 2: The introduction section（前言部分） Chapter 3: The method section（方法部分） Chapter 4: The results section（结果部分） Chapter 5: The discussion section（讨论部分）
breakdown of the sexes. However, please avoid here the “mixed-sex” joke. That is, do not say that the participants
Discussion （讨论）
What you think it shows.
Specific subsections of the METHOD
Design（实验设计） Participants (被试) Apparatus (or) Materials (仪器和材料) Procedure（过程）
The requirements of the research report
Chapter 2: The introduction section （前言部分）
What a INTRODUCTION Contains?
1. Review the background material (existing findings and
Design
1. Which design you used (i.e., whether you used an unrelated samples (独立样本【e.g. 被试内设计】), related samples（相关 样本【e.g. 被试间设计】）, or a mixed design（混合设计）). 2. For each independent variable (IV), whether it was a related or unrelated samples IV, how many levels it had, and what these were. 3. What your dependent variable (DV) was and how it was
theoretical ideas) relevant to your study.
2. Outline the precise problem that you chose to investigate and how you went about investigating it. 3. Outline the predictions derived from the experimental hypothesis