Reference no: EM133847803
Assignment:
The effect of victim intoxication and crime type on mock jury decision-making by Erica Martin & Lauren A. Monds
1. Briefly summarize the aim of the research in the article.
2. What has been found in the literature before and why did the author(s) propose the current study?
3. Explain the main hypothesis/hypotheses tested by the research.
4. How was each variable operationalized?
5. What were the Methods
6. Describe the methods of the study, including but not limited to its participants (e.g., how many, the age range, other important demographic characteristics) and
7. Explain the procedure ( explain the important parts of the procedure).
8. Use the statistics appendix to identify what kind of statistical tests the authors used.
9. Do these statistical tests interrogate frequency claims, association claims, causal claims?
10. Ehat were the results
11. What were the major results of the study?
12. Did the results support the authors' hypotheses? What do the findings mean?
13. Why is this study important?
14. What are some limitations of the study?
15. Are there alternative explanations for the results? (This is not asking to check if the authors listed limitations. should be able to come up with some limitations based on practices in research methodology).
16. Describe whether construct, internal, and external validities are relevant within the research presented.
17. Furthermore, after describing whether each is relevant (and why or why not), elaborate on which types of validity seem to be strongest based on the methodology used and research results reported, and which seem to be the weakest.
18. How could the authors improve upon the "weak" types of validity? Explain with some recommendations (how one would correct this study?).
19. For construct validity, consider questions for validity (did they test what they said they would test?) and reliability (how good of a measure was their measure to test the construct?).
20. How could they improve their construct validity? For internal validity, check if there is a third-variable problem. For external validity, evaluate their participants and what population they represent.