Assignment: Psychology Literature Review Paper
The purpose of this literature review is to describe, summarize, and evaluate existing research on your chosen topic in a comprehensive and concise way. Your topic discussion should start broad and become more focused as you develop the review (like an upside-down pyramid). The point of the pyramid should highlight why you're interested in a specific topic. The literature review needs to cover many aspects relating to the topic:
1. Introduction: Introduce the broad topic of interest based on faculty research (e.g. autism and skill acquisition),define all technical termsand variables.
a. Introduce the main concept (autism). Define the term by referring to sources such as the diagnostic criteria in the DSM-IV or research reviews (CITE THEM!).
b. If you are interested in a disorder, considerdiscussing the symptoms associated with the diagnosis. For example, describe how often the disorder occurs in the population, discuss prevalencein gender or racial groups, etc. The first few paragraphs should characterize what autism(or your main topic) is, and how it manifests in our own society.
c. Describe your precise interests in variables that affect your main topic. For example, you could describe which facet of autism you are particularly interested in (skill acquisition, diagnosis, school accommodationsetc.).
2. Main Body:Describe each research or review article you are using as a reference, including:
a. Experimental question or proposed association
b. Subject population
c. Independent and dependent variables, or the two variables proposed to be associated
d. Study design
e. How the data was measured?
f. Accurateand thorough representation of their findings (ALL the findings)
g. Your interpretation the relevance of their findings ("this study was flawed in that..."; The value of this study is that ....")
(The description of each experimental reference should be at least one page, likely more.)
3. Conclusion: Write several paragraphs integrating the findings from the separate articles into a conclusion and a possible future research question.
a. Tie articles together in a coherent way.
b. Point out consistencies or inconsistencies in the findings of the separate studies (e.g. which studies were strongest, which less convincing).
c. Draw a conclusion about the state of the field of research and describe where future research would be useful. What avenues would you explore in this area to further the field?
4. You must provide an APA formatted references section.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
Attachment:- Literature-Review-Summary-Table.rar