Your final task in conducting a psychology experiment is to communicate your results. By sharing your experiment with the scientific community, you are contributing to the knowledge base on that particular topic. One of the most common ways to share research results is to publish the study in a peer-reviewed professional journal. Other methods include sharing results at conferences, in book chapters, or in academic presentations.
In your case, it is likely that your class instructor will expect a formal write-up of your experiment in the same format required in a professional journal article or lab report:
- Title Page
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Method
- Results
- Discussion
- References
- Tables and Figures
