- The first paragraph of your paper should be a description of why it’s important to study whatever topic or behavior is being studied—the one you chose in the Topic and Article Discussion. The first paragraph (or two) of a journal article usually begins describing the importance of studying the topic of the study, with reference to real-world issues and descriptive data. The paragraph should clearly state what behavior or mental process is being studied, and present your research question. The best way to support the real-world importance of studying your chosen topic is to focus on real-world behaviors and their consequences. So, for the behavior that you’re studying, look for data (i.e., exact numbers) about the prevalence and consequences of the behavior.
- Read the Describing Problems ReadingActions for more suggestions about what to write in the first paragraph.
- Also, the Topic and Article Discussion is designed to help you with this paragraph. Most article posted in the discussion are good examples of introduction paragraphs about real-world importance. Your paper should begin the same way. However, be very careful about your citations. If you want to use the same data as you found in some journal article, but that journal article is not the one that actually collected the data (i.e., they are citing some other source), that other source is the one that you need to find, read, and cite to. Please continue to monitor the Discussion for any reply from me that asks for more information or revisions.
- The second paragraph should describe a psychology theory that can be applied to your topic. Find and read the article that is the very first publication about the theory, plus whatever other articles you need to in order to understand the theory. The paragraph(s) in your paper should define and summarize the major constructs in the theory, plus how the theory says the constructs relate to or influence each other in order to predict human behavior.
- Also, the Topic and Article Discussion is designed to help you with this paragraph. Please continue to monitor the Discussion for any reply from me that asks for more information or revisions.
- There should be a References list at the end of the Theory Paper (start the list on a new page), in APA Style. Use the APA Style Manual, and see the additional helpful links on this page too: APA Style & Word Formatting Links
- On a new page after the first References list, start a second References list, in APA format, that contains at least three published psychology journal articles that are very relevant to your topic. These should be articles that are different than those that you cite in the paragraphs of the theory paper. For each one, give the Reference in APA format, and then copy and paste the Abstract of the article. After the abstract, write one sentence saying whether you think the research is correlational or an experiment.
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