Your paper should be written for a general academic audience. You can assume general knowledge of psychology but avoid jargon that could only be understood by someone with expertise in the field.
To write your paper, you should:
1. Identify a topic of interest from one of the three lectures above.
2. Identify two academic, peer-reviewed journal articles on your topic.
3. Read your chosen papers carefully.
4. Write your paper. In no particular order, you should:
a. Explain the main findings of the two papers.
b. Compare and contrast – how are the papers similar/different? E.g. methodology, results, participants, variables studied. How do these papers connect to one another?
c. Describe how these papers contribute to our understanding of the field. E.g., do they provide evidence that a phenomenon or effect only occurs in certain contexts? Does one paper not replicate an effect?
d. Describe an area of potential future research that is informed by the two papers you have discussed.
