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Submit your final draft of the literature review and research design. Complete the file that is uploaded below. This is a continuation of an assignment you previously done.
 
PSY 257 Final Project Guidelines and Rubric
Overview
Social psychology is an important course for all students because it provides insight into everyday behavior. Students are able to see themselves, their families,
and their friends in the concepts covered in social psychology, and are able to adjust their behavior and attitudes based on what they have learned. Although
social psychology is a research field, social psychologists are often interested in understanding current social problems, and their work is often applied to
improve individual, community, and societal relationships.
The final project is meant for you to propose a hypothetical study. You are not and should not be conducting human subjects research for this project. It is
not necessary for the purposes of this assignment. All human subjects research requires written approval from the SNHU COCE Institutional Review Board in
order to protect the welfare and ensure ethical treatment of the subjects.
For the Final Project in this course, you will examine research presented in the course for how social psychology has changed, and investigate a potential gap in
the research that has not been addressed. This project will allow you to foster and improve your skills at reading, interpreting, and writing psychological works. It
will also help you to learn your place within the field, and how to combine both your personal perspective and opinions with established, empirical research to
make original claims.
The Final Project is supported by two milestones, which will be submitted at various points throughout the course to scaffold learning and ensure quality final
submissions. These milestones will take place in Modules Three and Five. The final research investigation is due in Module Seven.
This assessment addresses the following course outcomes:
 Describe foundational research regarding social context factors and social motives by examining the historical evolution of the field of social psychology
 Determine appropriate research designs used in social psychology for application in the study of aspects of social context factors and social motives
 Examine issues of ethics in foundational research in social psychology for informing appropriate conclusions
 Interpret claims made by foundational research in social psychology for conveying appropriate conclusions that are supported by peer-reviewed
evidence
 Develop basic research questions supported by peer-reviewed evidence by identifying gaps in the research of social psychology
Prompt
For the Final Project, you will conduct an investigation of the foundational research in social psychology. You will need to conduct a literature review of the
research presented in the course. This research will include both classic and current foundational research from the field. You will analyze the research
presented in the course for how what we know about social context factors and social motives has changed over time, as well as how researchers have
approached the study of social psychology. You will also consider the issues of ethics that are or are not addressed in the research. Following your review of the
research, you will identify a gap (or unexplored topic within the research) and develop a research question designed to further explore your gap. This will include
how the research supports your research question and how you would approach addressing your research question.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
I. Literature Review: In this part of the project, you will analyze foundational research presented in the course for how the field of social psychology has
changed over time, how researchers have designed research to study social psychology, and how issues of ethics have been addressed historically in the
field.
A. Summarize the claims made by the authors of the foundational research presented in the course regarding how social context factors influence
human behavior. In other words, what claims are made by the research about social context factors and human behavior?
B. Summarize the claims made by the authors of the foundational research presented in the course regarding how social motives influence human
behavior. In other words, what claims are made by classic and current research about social motives and human behavior?
C. Explain how the view of social context factors and social motives has evolved over the history of social psychology. Be sure to support your
analysis with examples from research to support your claim.
D. Explain the conclusions you can reach about research in social psychology. In other words, explain what we know about social context factors
and social motives, based on your review of the research presented in the course. Be sure to support your analysis with examples from research
to support your claim.
E. Describe the specific research designs used in the foundational research presented in the course used to address research questions. For
example, what were the specific methods used to address their research question? What type of research design was used?
F. Explain how research designs were used by authors to conduct research in social psychology. In other words, how did the research designs used
by researchers help in conducting research regarding social psychology?
G. Discuss how issues of ethics have been addressed in the foundational research presented in the course. For example, how did the authors
inform the participants of what the experiment would entail? How did the authors account for any potential risks to participants associated with
the study?
H. Discuss how issues of ethics in social psychology have been viewed historically. In other words, how have issues of ethics in the field been
viewed over time? Has this view changed as the field has progressed? Be sure to support your response with examples from research to support
your claims.
II. Research Design: In this part of the project, use your previous analysis of the research presented in the course to develop your research design. You will
identify a gap in the research you have reviewed, explain how the research supports further exploration of that aspect of social psychology, and develop
a research question addressing the gap. You will then determine an appropriate research design and explain how it could be implemented and how you
will account for issues of ethics in your proposed research question.
A. Identify a gap in social psychology research presented in the course that is unexplored or underdeveloped. For example, is there an unexplored
aspect of social psychology you believe could be further explored?
B. Develop a basic research question addressing the identified gap. In other words, create a question that you could answer if potential research
further investigated your identified gap. Be sure to support your developed research question with examples from research to support your
claims.
C. Determine an appropriate research design that addresses your research question regarding social psychology and explain why it was chosen. Be
sure to support your response with examples from the research presented in the course that supports the determined research design.
D. Explain how you will account for issues of ethics associated with your proposed research. In other words, how will you ensure that issues of
ethics associated with your proposed research have been managed appropriately? Be sure to support your analysis with examples from research
to support your claims.
E. Explain how your approach to accounting for issues of ethics was informed by your review of the research presented in the course. In other
words, what did you learn from the research presented in the course in terms of how to address issues of ethics that you were able to
incorporate in your own design?
Milestones
Final Project Milestone One: Literature Review Draft
In Module Three, you will submit a draft of the literature review due as part of your final research investigation using the three articles that were provided for
your track and topic in Module Two and two additional articles that you locate on your own. Rather than following the format of a typical lengthier APA
literature review, you will instead prepare five shorter, adapted, individual literature reviews (one for each article). Each literature review should be one page in
length. (These literature reviews will lead up to the final literature review submission.) The final version of the literature review will be submitted in Module
Seven as part of the Final Project. This milestone is graded with the Final Project Milestone One Rubric.
Final Project Milestone Two: Research Design
In Module Five, you will participate in a discussion in which you develop a research study design in preparation for your final research investigation and also
assist your classmates in refining their own proposed study. This milestone is graded with the Final Project Milestone Two Rubric.
Final Project Submission: Research Investigation
In Module Seven, you will submit a document containing a polished literature review and research design. The full adapted literature review will include a
review of five articles. Combined with the research design, the final document should be 4 to 6 pages in length. Both the literature review component and the
research design component should incorporate the feedback received in the milestones and should reflect all the critical elements in the Final ProjectRubric. This
document should be formatted in APA style. This final submission will be graded using the Final Project Rubric.
Final Project Rubric
Guidelines for Submission: Your research investigation should be 4–6 pages, typed in Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced, while following
appropriate APA format.
Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (85%) Needs Improvement (55%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Literature Review:
Social Context
Factors
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
analysis demonstrates an
astute ability to interpret
claims made in psychological
research
Summarizes the evidence
presented in the foundational
research presented in the
course regarding how social
context factors influence
human behavior
Summarizes the evidence
presented in the foundational
research presented in the
course regarding how social
context factors influence
human behavior, but summary
is cursory or contains
inaccuracies
Does not summarize the
evidence presented in the
foundational research
presented in the course
regarding how social context
factors influence human
behavior
6
Literature Review:
Social Motives
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
analysis demonstrates an
astute ability to interpret
claims made in psychological
research
Summarizes the evidence
presented in the foundational
research presented in the
course regarding how social
motives influence human
behavior
Summarizes the evidence
presented in the foundational
research presented in the
course regarding how social
motives influence human
behavior, but summary is
cursory or contains
inaccuracies
Does not summarize the
evidence presented in the
foundational research
presented in the course
regarding how social motives
influence human behavior
6
Literature Review:
History
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
explanation demonstrates keen
insight into how the view of
social context factors and social
motives has evolved over the
history of the field
Explains how the view of social
context factors and social
motives has evolved over the
history of the field using
examples from the research
Explains how the view of social
context factors and social
motives has evolved over the
history of the field, but
explanation is cursory, or lacks
examples from research
Does not explain how the view
of social context factors and
social motives has evolved over
the history of the field
6
Literature Review:
Social Psychology
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
response demonstrates an
astute ability to interpret
claims made in psychological
research
Explains the conclusions that
can be reached about social
psychology, based on analysis
of the research presented in
the course using examples
from the research
Explains the conclusions that
can be drawn about social
psychology presented in the
course, but explanation is
cursory, contains inaccuracies,
or lacks examples from
research
Does not explain the
conclusions that can be drawn
about social psychology
20
Literature Review:
Research Designs
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
response demonstrates an
astute ability to interpret
psychological research
Describes the specific research
designs used in the
foundational research
presented in the course used
to address research questions
Describes the research designs
used in the foundational
research presented in the
course used to address
research questions, but
description is cursory, contains
inaccuracies, or response does
not reference specific research
designs from the research
Does not describe the research
designs used in the
foundational research
presented in the course used
to address research questions
6
Literature Review:
Conduct Research
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
explanation demonstrates keen
insight into how researchers
use research designs to better
conduct research
Explains how research designs
were used by authors in the
research presented in the
course to conduct research
Explains how research designs
were used by authors in the
research presented in the
course to conduct research,
but explanation is cursory or
contains inaccuracies
Does not explain how research
designs were used by authors
in the research presented in
the course to conduct research
6
Literature Review:
Issues of Ethics
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
discussion demonstrates keen
insight into how the authors of
the research presented in the
course addressed issues of
ethics
Discusses how issues of ethics
have been addressed in the
foundational research
presented in the course using
examples from the research
Discusses how issues of ethics
have been addressed in the
foundational research
presented in the course but
discussion is cursory, contains
inaccuracies, or lacks examples
from research
Does not discuss how issues of
ethics have been addressed in
the foundational research
presented in the course
4
Literature Review:
Viewed
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
discussion demonstrates a
nuanced understanding of how
the views and approaches to
ethical issues in the field have
changed over time
Discusses how issues of ethics
in social psychology have been
viewed historically using
examples from the research
Discusses how issues of ethics
in social psychology have been
viewed historically, but
discussion is cursory, contains
inaccuracies, or lacks examples
from research
Does not discuss how issues of
ethics in social psychology have
been viewed historically
4
Research Plan: Gap Meets “Proficient” criteria and
response demonstrates keen
insight into an unexplored or
underdeveloped area of social
psychology based on the
research presented in the
course
Identifies a gap in the social
psychology research presented
in the course that is unexplored
or underdeveloped
Identifies a gap in the social
psychology research presented
in the course that is unexplored
or underdeveloped, but
identification contains
inaccuracies
Does not identify a gap in the
social psychology research
presented in the course that is
unexplored or underdeveloped
10.5
Research Plan:
Research Question
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
developed research question
demonstrates a keen insight
into how to develop research
questions that address the
identified gap
Develops a basic research
question addressing the
identified gap that is supported
by examples from the research
Develops a basic research
question addressing the
identified gap, but developed
research question is cursory,
contains inaccuracies, or lacks
examples from the research
Does not develop a basic
research question addressing
the identified gap
10.5
Research Design:
Research Design
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
response demonstrates a
sophisticated awareness of the
research design that would be
most appropriate in addressing
the research question
Determines an appropriate
research design that addresses
the research question and
explains why it was chosen,
using examples from the
analysis and the research
Determines a research design
that addresses the research
question and explains why it
was chosen, but determination
contains inaccuracies, or
explanation is cursory or lacks
examples from previous
analysis or research
Does not determine a research
design that addresses the
research question and explain
why it was chosen
6
Research Design:
Issues of Ethics
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
explanation demonstrates an
astute ability to interpret
psychological research
Explains how issues of ethics
would be accounted for with
the proposed research, using
examples from the research
Explains how issues of ethics
would be accounted for with
the proposed research, but
explanation is cursory, contains
inaccuracies, or lacks examples
from the research
Does not explain how issues of
ethics would be accounted for
with the proposed research
4
Research Design:
Informed
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
explanation demonstrates keen
insight into how your approach
to accounting for issues of
ethics was influenced by the
research presented in the
course
Explains how your approach to
accounting for issues of ethics
was informed by your review of
the research presented in the
course using personal thoughts
and examples from the
research
Explains how your approach to
accounting for issues of ethics
was informed by your review of
the research presented in the
course, but explanation is
cursory, contains inaccuracies,
or response is not supported
by personal thoughts and
examples from research
Does not explain how your
approach to accounting for
issues of ethics was informed
by your review of the research
presented in the course
4
Articulation of
Response
Submission is free of errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, and
organization and is presented
in a professional and easy-toread format
Submission has no major errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization
Submission has major errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization
that negatively impact
readability and articulation of
main ideas
Submission has critical errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization
that prevent understanding of
ideas
7
Total 100%