Explain the effect of language on the reproduction of visually perceived form.

For this experiment you will be replicating an experiment conducted by Carmichael, Hogan and Walter (1932), an experimental study of the effect of language on the reproduction of visually perceived form. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 15, 73 – 86.
LL835 1.2 Writing an Experimental Report in Linguistics

(3000 words)

For this assignment, you will have conducted a small-scale psycholinguistics experiment. Your experimental write-up is your own individual piece of work, the aim of which is to provide a clear account of your experiment so that your work could, in principle, be replicated. Note that this will require you to be succinct, specific and explicit!

Your paper should follow the format of a typical experimental linguistics article, and hence include the following:

1.Title
2.Abstract
3.Introduction
4.Method (Participants/Materials/Procedure)
5.Results
6.Discussion
7.Conclusion
8.References
9.Appendix (Raw data and Consent Forms)

Introduction: Explain briefly the purpose of your investigation. What are the issues you are addressing, why did you choose to address it and what are you aiming to prove? Briefly describe the background literature that has set the framework for your investigation, and then state your hypothesis clearly.

Method:
Participants (Number/Age/Gender)
Materials
Procedure

N.B. This should be sufficiently detailed for another researcher to replicate your experiment.

Results: In this section, you describe but do not discuss the relevance of your results. These can be further illustrated using a selection of tables/figures/charts, which should include the appropriate titles and labels of the variables investigated. Basic (descriptive) statistics, e.g. means/percentages, which describe patterns within your experimental group, should be included. No inferential statistics are required. No raw data should appear in this section.

Discussion: In this section you relate your results to your hypothesis and other literature on this topic. For example, do your findings confirm or disconfirm your hypothesis? Are your results useful? Do they raise further issues for investigation? Were there any aspects of the experiment that could have been designed differently? A good discussion section does not simply repeat results. It forms links between the issues raised in the Introduction and findings in the Results section, making new contributions.

Conclusion: This section should provide an overview of your investigation, summarising the most important findings and making recommendations for future research.

References: This should contain an exhaustive list of the sources that you have used in your project. Every title in your reference section should appear in your paper (i.e. it is not a bibliography). Please adopt the Harvard referencing system, as exemplified on the library web pages.

Appendix: This section is placed after the References and should include raw data (the actual data collected from your participants) and your consent forms. Anything included in the Appendix does not count towards the word limit.

ETHICS:

Participants in your experiment must not belong to any group that might be considered vulnerable. If you are unsure about what constitutes vulnerability, please refer to the ethics procedure on the Humanities website:

https://www.kent.ac.uk/humanities/facultyoffice/local/research/index.html

For current purposes, it is essential that your participants are:

over 18
have no disabilities
have given informed consent
have been assured of anonymity
are explained the aims of your experiment subsequent to their participation.


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