Mind, Brain & Behaviour 2/Assignment 2 question

[MelonBar]

I think there might be like 2 MBB students on here but here goes 

Assignment 2: The Lab Report

I'm trying to work out the best way to graphically present the results.

My 3 hypotheses are:

1. Children more likely to use display rules in an audience condition than when alone
2. Older children more likely to use display rules than younger children
3. Girls more likely to use display rules

Background info: We are using data collected by another cohort some years ago. We are allowed to choose 3 of 5 hypotheses, and I chose those 3 up there. The other two hypotheses talk about verbal/facial display rules, and prosocial/self-protective display rules respectively.

Because my 3 hypotheses are not concerned with distinguishing verbal/facial and prosocial/self-protective display rules, would it be correct to not mention these in my introduction? And so, when representing the collated data in graph form, should I be collapsing verbal/facial + prosocial/self-protective display rule data?

I'm still trying to wrap my headd around this...

Is this how it works?

Imagine there's a pile of ingredients for cooking, there's lots of stuff in there so one could make lots of different kinds of food from this one pile of ingredients (THE DATA).

However, say there's two people, and one of them is ordered to make pizza, and the other a mango chutney (we have chosen different hypotheses to test, mine are the 3 above, but another student could choose a different set of 3).

The end result is that we have a pizza and a mango chutney (the reports are essentially different because we are testing different things. For example, I will collapse data concerning verbal/facial display rules in the reports section graphs, while other dude will make a big fuss about it in his).

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thanks so much, pls consider and help a confused child along his way. Rachel Buckley answered a similar question on the discussion board but she didn't want to give a detailed answer.

[simpak]

I don't know of this particular report but at this level you shouldn't be overly selective about the information you include.  The purpose of the report is to demonstrate understanding about this display rules concept - if you're collapsing data from those two categories I would be referring to both of them in the introduction and then explaining that you've combined both of them in your data.  Like something along the lines of 'display rules could take the form of...brief description with references' and then in your method 'use of blah/blah display rules and blah/blah display rules was analysed and then data on display rules combined' etc.  Obviously in a more sophisticated fashion than that haha.

[MelonBar]

I don't know of this particular report but at this level you shouldn't be overly selective about the information you include.  The purpose of the report is to demonstrate understanding about this display rules concept - if you're collapsing data from those two categories I would be referring to both of them in the introduction and then explaining that you've combined both of them in your data.  Like something along the lines of 'display rules could take the form of...brief description with references' and then in your method 'use of blah/blah display rules and blah/blah display rules was analysed and then data on display rules combined' etc.  Obviously in a more sophisticated fashion than that haha.

Thanks simpak, that makes sense   

[simpak]

No worries!  I hope I'm telling you the right thing, hopefully someone else doing the subject will appear!  The assignment was different when I did MBB2 haha.  Just telling you what I would do

[marr]

What simpak said sounds about right and is what I would do in your situation