This booklet is designed to help you understand the rationale, expectations, and background to the
laboratory report assignment. Do not use this booklet as a source of evidence in your report – you
must use the primary sources of evidence (video and core readings) provided to you on Cloud Deakin.
The laboratory report
This exercise is designed to provide you with practical experience at preparing a laboratory report
from a simple research design. The report that you write from this study will be worth 40% of the
final mark for this unit. The report should be no longer than 2000 words (not including abstract and
references) and is due on Thursday the 24th of August at 2:00pm (middle of Week 6).
Assignment rationale
Laboratory reports (i.e., lab reports or research reports) are what we use in psychology to
disseminate research findings. They require a clear understanding of the scientific method to flow
logically, as well as the ability to write concisely. We hope to help you develop these skills, along
with a few others:
1. You will gain an understanding of some social and developmental psychology theories
which have shaped the understanding of our patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviour.
This is important because these pivotal theories have helped shape our current
understandings and explanations of certain human behaviours.
2. You will learn how to apply these theories to recent social psychology research and
develop skills that allow you to expand scientific knowledge in the area of interest.
By writing this laboratory report you should gain an understanding of how science builds on
and expands previous knowledge and how you can contribute to the development of
knowledge.
3. You will develop your analytic and communication skills.
Many of you may be aiming to go on and do second and third year psychology, then
perhaps complete post-graduate studies in psychology or other disciplines. As you will be
writing laboratory reports in these courses it is very important that you learn the basic skills
in first year on how to write a laboratory report. This is why we dedicate many HPS121
seminars to help you in your understanding of the requirements of a good laboratory
report.
If you do not plan to continue beyond first year psychology, research has shown that both
employers and recent graduates rate communication skills as an important factor affecting
one’s employability.
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The purpose of this pamphlet is to Help you in comprehending the reasoning, expectations, and background of the laboratory report assignment. This pamphlet should not be used as a source of evidence in your report.
You must use the primary sources of evidence provided to you on Cloud Deakin (video and core texts).
The report from the laboratory
This activity is designed to give you hands-on experience writing a laboratory report.
from a straightforward research strategy The report you create from this research will be worth 40% of the total.
This is the unit’s final grade. The report should be no more than 2000 words length (excluding the abstract and references).
references) and is due at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 24th (middle of Week 6).
Justification for the assignment
Reports from the laboratory (i.e.
