PSY 3220 Research in Experimental Psychology sample papers, module by module

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PSY-3220 introduces TESU psychology students to research design, the strengths and limits of each method and the craft of writing a research report. The nine samples follow one invented adult learner who turns a hunch about her phone and her concentration into a full study, step by step, from a falsifiable question to a plan for testing whether the finding holds up.

Send the exact assignment or rubric from your classroom and a custom sample written to it lands in 24 to 48 hours, the first one free. PSY-3220 is TESU’s Research in Experimental Psychology course. TESU’s introduction to research design in the psychological sciences, covering the suitability, strengths and limits of different methods, critical evaluation of published research and the writing of a research report in APA style. Searches like "psy 3220 module 3 assignment example", "PSY3220 sample paper", and "PSY-3220 module samples" land on this page.

What PSY-3220 is really about

Methods papers earn their marks by applying a concept to the student’s own study. The strongest define each idea accurately, show it at work in a specific design choice, cite published research that tests it and say plainly what the method cannot show.

TESU’s public syllabus for this course names nine modules that lead to a written research report, and the drawers use those titles. The student and her study are invented; every study and standard she cites is real.

What PSY-3220’s assessments ask for

Expect papers on turning a belief into a testable question, choosing valid measures, ethical safeguards, survey design, randomized experiments and preregistration, single-case and quasi-experimental designs, effect sizes and power, APA reporting standards and replication.

Where students lose points in PSY-3220

Points fall when terms are defined but never applied, a hypothesis cannot be proved wrong, measures are named without validity evidence, ethics stops at criticizing Milgram, a significant p-value is treated as proof or generalization is assumed from one sample.

The PSY-3220 drawers

Module 1

PSY-3220 Module 1 assignment example

Module 1: an invented psychology student who believes her phone hurts her concentration turns that hunch into a testable question, using Lilienfeld's argument about psychology as a science, Stanovich's account of falsifiability and operational definitions and Ward and colleagues' brain drain experiments. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 2

PSY-3220 Module 2 assignment example

Module 2: the invented student chooses measures of reading comprehension, phone dependence and anxiety for her phone study and evaluates their reliability and validity, using Cronbach and Meehl's account of construct validity, Campbell and Fiske's multitrait-multimethod matrix and Flake, Pek and Hehman's review of validation practices. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 3

PSY-3220 Module 3 assignment example

Module 3: the invented student examines research ethics through Milgram's obedience study, Baumrind's critique of its treatment of participants and Burger's ethically modified replication, then writes consent, deception and debriefing procedures for her phone study. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 4

PSY-3220 Module 4 assignment example

Module 4: the invented student plans a survey of adult online learners' study habits and checks it against phone screen-time records, using Krosnick's theory of survey satisficing, Podsakoff and colleagues' review of common method bias and Andrews and colleagues' comparison of estimated and recorded smartphone use. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 5

PSY-3220 Module 5 assignment example

Module 5: the invented student designs a three-condition randomized experiment on phone location and reading comprehension and preregisters it, using Stothart and colleagues' notification experiment, Simmons, Nelson and Simonsohn's demonstration of false-positive results and Nosek and colleagues' case for preregistration. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 6

PSY-3220 Module 6 assignment example

Module 6: the invented student considers how her phone question could be studied when random assignment is not possible, designing an ABAB single-case study, a nonequivalent-groups comparison and a cross-sequential plan, using Shadish, Cook and Campbell's text on quasi-experimental designs, Kazdin's single-case design text and Smith's review of single-case research. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 7

PSY-3220 Module 7 assignment example

Module 7: the invented student plans her sample size with a power analysis and interprets hypothetical results for her phone study, using Cohen's power primer, Lakens's primer on calculating and reporting effect sizes and Wasserstein and Lazar's statement on the meaning and misuse of p-values. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 8

PSY-3220 Module 8 assignment example

Module 8: the invented student outlines her phone study's research report section by section, using the APA Publication Manual, Appelbaum and colleagues' journal article reporting standards for quantitative research and Gernsbacher's advice on transparent, clear and memorable empirical writing. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 9

PSY-3220 Module 9 assignment example

Module 9: the invented student asks whether her findings would generalize and whether the brain drain effect is robust, using the Open Science Collaboration's reproducibility project, Henrich, Heine and Norenzayan's critique of WEIRD samples and Ruiz Pardo and Minda's replication of Ward and colleagues' study. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Using a PSY-3220 sample the right way

Each paper builds one piece of a research report around a single study. Send the module prompt and your research topic, and a free first draft arrives within 24 to 48 hours.

How these samples are written

PSY-3220 samples apply each method to one running study, cite research that tests the method and state what it cannot show.

PSY-3220 questions, answered

Who takes PSY-3220?

TESU psychology students learning research design and report writing.

Do the samples follow one study?

Yes; all nine build an invented student’s study of phones and reading comprehension.

Are the module titles from TESU?

Yes; they follow the nine modules in TESU’s public syllabus.