Research paper: Task difficulty and Incubation

Instruction

This paper is an APA format write up of your project. This will include a title page, abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, and references. Your introduction should be a minimum of 2 pages (double spaced, not including abstract and title page) but can be longer if you wish. Your introduction should have 3 or 4 references to previous literature.

Your discussion should be a minimum of 2 pages (double spaced, not including references or appendix) but can also be longer. Ten points per page will be deducted for being short. This includes missing half pages and such but will be scaled. There is no required length for your method and results. Just make sure you provide enough detail we would need to replicate, and all the relevant stats.

For Results section; Mention the mean(it’s below), Standard deviation, t-test, F-test(df1 and df2) and p-value

Infos about my experiment

Number of participants;- 7 (all of them are students)

In this experiment, I’m looking at Task Difficulty and the effect of incubation period(Look at the experiment please-another file).

· How is this manipulated/measured? Participants’ attempts will be measured by looking at if the participant answered the riddle correctly on the 1st attempt or 2nd attempt which is after the incubation period, because after the break, participants had 2nd attempt on the same questions.

· Incubation is as a within subjects variable.

· Independent Variable:- Incubation

Dependent variable:- Number of Trials(whether the participant got the right answer on the 1st trial or 2nd which is after incubation)

· Mean of “Before Incubation” :- 6.57

Mean of “After Incubation” :- 9.43

One Reference with a paragraph explaining their study is below and you can use it for the introduction part:-

The effects of a break during the task solving increase the chances of developing more solutions to solve the problem. Browne & Cruse (1988) conducted a study on the effect of incubation on problem-solving to distinguish between illusion and illumination. In two experiments, they showed that subjects who received analogical hint during incubation are more competent in the formulation of solutions than those working without a break. It also showed that incubation’s effectiveness depends on the person’s abilities to take the analogical hints.

Browne, B. A., & Cruse, D. F. (1988). The incubation effect: Illusion or illumination? Human Performance, 1(3), 177-185.

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