Introduction Firstly an Introduction must tell the reader a bit about the topic that is being investigated, and give an account of relevant research. See ‘An investigation concerning the influence of gender on perceived intelligence.’ An Introduction in a psychology report is shaped like a funnel going from the general at the beginning to the specific, or what it is YOU are actually investigating towards the end.  For your research investigation first tell the reader what it is about, and where you are coming from. If you were to do this investigation into gender and perceived intelligence you would first discuss what you mean by intelligence and perceived intelligence, then report on Hogan (1978) giving details of this work. You might then go on to generally explain sex-role stereotyping/gender, perception and the self-concept. You conclude your Introduction by telling the reader your Aim and the Hypotheses. Your hypotheses could be: Research hypothesis H1: 'That gender has a significant effect on perceived intelligence.' Null hypothesis H0: 'That gender does not have an effect on perceived intelligence at the 0.05 level of significance.' Declare H1 to be a two-tailed hypothesis, and say WHY. (NB No specific direction of results predicted). Also state the implications of setting a 0.05 level of significance. This is that even in the event of your results being found to be statistically significant you accept that there is a 1: 20 probability that your results occurred by chance or random factor. Click here, to continue on to Method. Or Here to go back to Abstract |
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