The goal of having you read and review a journal article is to teach you the skills of looking up information in a psychological journal and being able to comprehend what research was done and what the findings were.
The first written paper for this class will be for you to review the
following journal article:
Loftus, E. (1975). Leading Questions and the Eyewitness Report.
Cognitive Psychology, 7, 560-572.
This article is on reserve at the new library.
You can get it from docutek by going to nmsu.docutek.com
Click on look up ...reserves...
Select Foltz from the professor drop down menu and click Go
Follow prompts
When password is requested, enter: 201ysp
Download paper
Here's what the you will need to write for the paper
In your paper be sure to address the following issues
What is the problem that Loftus is investigating?
What were her hypotheses?
How did they go about investigating their hypotheses?
For the experiements:
What subjects did they use?
What materials did Loftus use?
What did the subjects have to do?
What were the independent and dependent variables
How did she analyze the data?
What were their results and how do they relate to their hypotheses?
What kinds of implications does this work have for:
How well we remember something?
Eyewitness testimony
Other...
Your TA can give you more details about how long the paper should be and can help you get through some of the more difficult spots in the paper.