The Discussion section is where a researcher is able to defend their choices and acknowledge the limitations of the experiment and suggests where there may be weaknesses leading to an unexpected null result.

Discussion Section

Literature review is not about the experiment itself but rather about what it might mean. It scopes what a good experiment should look like by defining the gap in knowledge that a suitable experiment could fill. How an experimenter fills that gap is a matter of design.

Literature Review

An experiment is a specific type of research study designed to determine if a meaningful relationship between two variables is causal in nature. By utilizing statistical analysis to support these causal conclusions, experiments serve as one of the most common and valuable tools in psychological research.

Experiment

- Title and Abstract
- Motivation/Literature Review 
- Experimental Method 
- Results
- Discussion

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1. The literature review, experimental method, discussion, and the skeleton of the results should be written up before running a single participant because the statistical analysis should be known in advance. 
2. If the experiment is not convincing, then no time has been wasted in gathering useless data.


Experimental Method Writing Process

Title and Abstract • Motivation/Literature Review • Experimental Method • Results • Discussion

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