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| APA | the format for writing up a research report, published by the American Psychological Association |
| ABSTRACT | a brief summary of the research report |
| APPENDIX | after the report, this comes and contains extra, non-essential information such as comprehensive tables |
| DESIGN | how the hypotheses will be tested (e.g., correlational) |
| DISCUSSION | the last main part of the write-up, giving interpretations of the data and suggestions for future research |
| CORRELATIONAL | a design which looks for the relationship between variables |
| CAUSAL COMPARATIVE | a design which prospectively or retrospectively compares two groups (without manipulating and independent variable) |
| EXPERIMENT | research which manipulates an independent variable |
| HYPOTHESIS | a prediction about what results we expect to observe |
| INSTRUMENTS | the questionnaire and/or tests used |
| RESULTS | the descriptive and inferential statistics are reported in this section |
| PARTICIPANTS | another name for the research subjects |
