new 2 x 2 factorial design W r i t i n g

The psychological purpose behind Paper IV is to make sure you can summarize what you

did in your second study, how you did it, and what you found. This is similar to Paper II,

but you will include information related to your second independent variable in Paper IV.

For the results section in Paper IV, you will provide information about your participants,

materials, and procedure. Your participant section goes first, and it includes descriptive

statistics about your sample (means and standard deviations for age and percentages of

gender and race/ethnicity). This is a new sample of participants, so you cannot use Paper

II for this information. Make it NEW! Your materials and procedure sections include

information about what you did and how you did it. You should once again write this

section for an audience who is unfamiliar with your newer study two variables, but you

can actually summarize or refer back to study one variables if and when they carry over

from study one to study two. In the end, just remember that you must educate your reader

about your materials and procedure, giving enough detail so they could replicate study

two on their own. Your Paper IV Methods section will thus look a lot like your Paper II,

but in Paper IV you will describe BOTH independent variables as well as important

dependent variables (especially any new ones you added). I suggest reviewing your Paper

II feedback to see if you need more clarity in your methods descriptions, but make sure

that your reader is clear about the mechanics of your new 2 X 2 factorial design.

You will also write a new Results section. Since you now have two independent variables

and potentially new dependent variables, you will not be able to reuse ANY content from

Paper II. Rather, you will write a more complicated results section focusing on a 2 X 2

factorial design here.

Your Discussion section for Paper IV will be a short summary of what you found in that

study. Similar to Paper II, you can make some educated guesses about what you found

and why you found it, but keep the focus on study two only (in Paper V due at the end of

the semester, you will include a more advanced discussion section that looks at both

study one and study two, so keep the Paper IV discussion focused only on study two).