Psychological Research: Personality, Cognitive Ability

Study overview, purpose, and relevance (4 points)
* This study seeks to find out what is the relationship between an individual’s personality and their cognitive ability (2 points)
* Why are you interested in testing this idea? Discuss how this research builds upon the previous study you read about in assignment 1. The idea of a relationship between personality and one’s cognitive ability is an interesting idea that can help one understand student performance. (2 points)
2. Hypothesis (2 points)
Describe what do you expect to find. I expect to find out if students what moral behaviour enhances good performance.
3. Describe the key variables in your study and how you would operationalize each variable.(4 points)
* Variables: What, if anything, are you manipulating?What are you measuring? The variable in this research are; good morals, bad morals and performance. How does moral affect the performance of a student (2 points)
* The three variables will be measured from how the students answer the questionnaire. (2 points)
4. Sample Characteristics? (2 points)
This study will involve college students because we can easily test their performance based on their grades.
5. Describe the type of methodology your study will use and why is this method being proposed. (4 points total)
(a) I will use a questionnaire to ask the students questions that seek give an insight on the relationship be...