how sleep quantity affect cognitive performance

what is expected to be in he lab report
1) introduction
-definition of the key terms (cognitive performance and sleep)
-review literature on sleep andmemory (support hypotheses)
-rationale for study
   *why this study is needed e.g. past study have gaps so hence this study
                                                    what is different about my study
-TWO hypothesis because have 2 sleep Independent variables
    * it can be positive or negative relationship but must have
2) MEthod
 -participants (age and gender)
 – materials
    * memory span task-how we came up with this- explain how the number list was derived
    * sleep and how the data derived
-procedure
   *overview of what was done in class which is -students were briefed on the nature of the study- 1st given   
    demographic and sleep data
3) RESULTS
 – TWO correlations
 -associated descriptive (M,SD)- found in the page with 2 tables!!
 – no need graph, just half a page and straight to the point
4)DISCUSSION
 – interpret result (no relationship between sleep and cognitive performance)
 – discuss my results with past results
    * tell what was not same (dissimilarities) e.g they found dissimilarities between A and B but i didint
– explain reasons for why there is no relationship between sleep and cognitive performance
    *non statistical results/relationships
FOR EXAMPLE- COFFEE
 -coffee is a stimulant so it’s confounding the results
 *NEED TO LINK IT, THE ARGUMENT HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE MAIN POINT
– next para = limitations of the research
– next paragraph = areas of future research
– next paragraph = implications * how the importance of results apply to real world
5) CONCLUSION (one paragraph)
6) REFERENCING – APA style, also citation APA style
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