APA Results Section – SPSS

APA Results Section – SPSS

An equal number of participants (n=34) (102 different participants in total) were tested in each of the three conditions (Method of Limits, Method of Constant Stimuli, and Method of Adjustment). (participants were randomly assigned groups)

Your task is to analyze the data to determine if there are any significant differences in either the Point of Subjective Equality (PSE) or the Just Noticeable Difference (JND) as a function of the psychophysical methods used to measure them (Method of Limits, Method of Constant Stimuli, and Method of Adjustment).

Excel data attached (mini-report_Data (2)).

It should be written using APA format/style and it should include a title page, a results section, and figures.

-describe your variables (Mean, Standard Deviation, Minimum, Maximum and range). Remember this applies only to continuous variables. Create a table describing your variables or describe them in-text.

-report ALL results, even non-significant. If you decide to include the table for the results please do NOT repeat the info in the text: refer the reader to the table and make a general note of findings (not actual values that will be in the table)

-do not explain results (just is there a significance and how the groups are different.)

-graphs of the results (remember SPSS does not make an APA graph, you will have to rework it)

-pay attention to italicizing signs, rounding the values and describing any post-hoc tests (not just saying “there is a difference between groups”, say how the groups are different).

Attached are some tips and guidelines and a sample results section in APA format, please have something like that (participant characteristics not needed in this case, just what is available through the data).

Sample : 20180622061834resultssample_apa (2)

Please follow APA

Summary:

given data (and info on how it was collected)

-analyze that data (from excel spreadsheet into spss)

-write APA style results section

-pull out relevant bits of the data and write out

-do not explain results (just analyze is there a significance/difference)

-vision data

-measuring thresholds in visual experiment

-measured using three different methods

-will you get different results depending on how you operationally define each threshold?

  • Method of adjustment (‘adjustment’ in data)
  • Method of limits (‘limits’ in data)
  • Method of constant stimuli (‘constant stimuli’ in data)

Three different ways to measure thresholds (3 condition experiment)

Method of adjustment – group 1 (n=34)

Method of limits – group 2 (n=34)

Method of common stimuli – group 3 (n=34)

Is the threshold significantly different in each group depending on how you measure? (different people in each group)