Sample set of submissions

2025 Edition

Below are a complete set of submissions, plus marking criteria and feedback for an imaginary student on this module.

This imaginary student selected a sub-topic on test-potentiated learning (Potts & Shanks, 2014) in long-term memory research. This sub-topic was picked for this example because it’s one not currently available to students taking this module. The assumption is that the student completed this project in 2018, and hence before the publication of Seabrooke et al. (2019).

Proformas

• One-page summary with model answer. Student uploads to PsyLab.

• Full protocol with model answer. Student uploads to PsyLab.

• Abstract submission with model answer. Student uploads to PsyLab.

• Presentation feedback with example feedback and model slides.

• Bullet point plan: There is no proforma for this, but there is a model answer. Student uploads to PsyLab.

• Main report with model answer and mark scheme Student uploads to DLE.

Lab book (aka PsyLab)

Model answers are given here for illustration, they should not appear on PsyLab.

The operation of this lab book is more like the PsyLab activities of PSYC412 etc, rather than the rather labour-intensive manual checking system tried in PSYC519. Exercises are marked as ‘complete’ (i.e. passed) if the material uploaded / pasted meets certain syntatical requirements that can be automatically checked on the server side.

• Week 1. Statistical power

• Week 1. Using OpenSesame

• Week 2. Preprocessing

• Week 2. One-page summary

• Week 3. Experiment protocol

• Week 4. Experiment script

• Week 5. Within-subject differences

• Week 6. Understanding interactions

• Week 6. Factorial differences

• Week 7. Data upload

• Week 8. Analysis script

• Week 9. Abstract submission

• Week 10. There is no Week 10 PsyLab.

• Week 11. Bullet point plan

• Week 12. There is no Week 12 PsyLab.

Weeks indicate the weeks that the activities open. The activity closes at the end (23:59) of the Friday of the week after the week it opened. So, for example, if it opened in Week 1, then it would close Friday of Week 2.