A psychology lab report is a paper that describes an experiment.
A lab report is organized and written according to the format used in professional journal articles.
You’ll also discuss your findings and your interpretations of the results.
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Your title should be relatively brief and provide a good idea about what your paper is about.
Avoid titles that are too general and don’t provide a clear description of what your lab report contains.
Abstract
Page two of your lab report will be anabstract.
Think of the abstract of your psychology lab report as a succinct summary of your experiment.
It should explain your study’s objectives, how you conducted the experiments, and what you discovered.
In this section, you essentially explain to your reader why you chose to do your experiment.
Your introduction will likely be several pages long to provide a thorough and sufficient overview of past research.
Be sure to cite all sources using proper APA format.
Method
The next section of your lab report will be themethod section.
In this portion of your report, you will describe the procedures you used in your research.
This section will likely be quite short; you don’t need to include any interpretation of your results.
You should also include tables and figures to display statistical data and results.
Be sure to only include tables and figures that you will talk about in the text.
The results section will likely be one of the shortest sections of your lab report.
Discussion
Next, your lab report should include a discussion section.
Here you’ll interpret the results of your experiment and state whether your findings support your hypothesis.
you could also discuss how the results of your experiment relate to previous findings.
For more detailed descriptions and examples of tables and figures, consult thePublication Manual of the American Psychological Association.
American Psychological Association.Publication manual of the American Psychological Association(7th ed.).
- doi:10.1037/0000165-000
Bavdekar SB, Chandak S.Results: Unraveling the findings.J Assoc Physicians India.
2015 Sep;63(9):44-6.
American Psychological Association.Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association(7th ed.).
The American Psychological Association, 2019.
