Story writing and Practical Report Writing

Final Draft (1000 words)

Please use the module provided for this Assignment

(100 words total for Title/Hypothesis/Aim)

TITLE: Healthy sleeping and its relation to short term memory and reaction time

AIM:The aim of this activity is to investigate if a person going to sleep early, will result in having better short-term memory and reaction time than those who stayed up late.

HYPOTHESIS: For a person with healthy sleeping pattern, will have a positive result in better short-term memory and reaction time compared to those who stayed up late.

INTRODUCTION:

(200 words)

                Background – why you are doing this

                Context – The research that leads to the hypothesis

                Rationalefor doing the experiment, include at least three references.
References must serve a purpose, e.g.:

• Provide background understanding or context
• Highlight importance or significance of topic
• Demonstrate how this fits in with what we already know about the topic

                Blend your AIM and HYPOTHESIS into this section too.

METHOD:(Please read the module provided to write the Method)

(100 words total Method/Results)

How did you do it?         

Include apparatus used

                Formal / Objective

                Step by step,(for the purposes of this exercise, we prefer your methods to be presented in dots points and using full sentences)

Has to use past tense

RESULTS:What are they? (You can literally just put your table/graph of results here! Place raw data in an Appendix)
                Label all figures and tables with a caption and ensure you make specific reference to them in the Discussion section

                Donot include descriptions/analysis of results(that is for the Discussion section)

Refer to yourself in the third person, i.e.: ‘Student 1’

DISCUSSION:

(350 words)

• What happened? How well do theResultssatisfytheAim?
• Was theHypothesis ‘supported’ by the results?
• Analyse the Results. What occurred that was within what had been predicted or could be expected from the information provided in the Introduction

• What could have happened that didn’t?Comment on your own results first, then on the group results
• Were there errors or occurrences that seem unusual. If so, speculate as to why this was
• Did the experiment consider enough variable (such as gender, age and perceived fitness level of participants etc.)

• Were there any errors or Limitations in the experiment?

SUGGESTIONS:

(150 words)

• Suggestions and Recommendations to overcome errors or ways to improve the experiment.

CONCLUSION:

(100 words)

Summarise key outcomes only. Refer back to Aims

See over for reference list and appendices

REFERENCE LIST:

Not included in word count

APPENDIX:

Not included in word count

Raw data, such as the table including the initial timings, can go here if you want to include it
If you do want to include it, ensure it is referenced in the Discussion section.
If you’re not going to reference it, leave it out.

Note: Please generate a suitable graph or chart for REACTION TIME AND SHORT-TERM MEMORY using the raw data from themodule for the 3 subjects.

The following two graphs above are reaction time and number memory for Subject 1 only which compares the result of Subject 1 (myself) to the rest of the population and can be used in the results section.