You need to write a lab report that consists of
1. Title Page
2. Introduction -Usually, the introduction is one short paragraph that explains the goals and objectives of your research.
3. Methods.
4. Data.
5. Results.
6. Discussion or Analysis.
7. Conclusions.
8. Figures and Graphs.
1. This is a brief summary of what the lab report is about :
The main aim and purpose of our study is to understand technology and it’s influence on delayed gratification for children at a particular point in their developmental stage, more specifically between the points of elementary school and early high school. The typical definition of delayed gratification is the capacity to postpone an urge for an immediate reward in favour of a more desirable reward at a later moment. Studies have demonstrated that highly successful people have the capacity to postpone receiving rewards.
We have chosen to focus on the influence of technology during certain periods of socialization in which proper socializing agents such as playing and interacting with peers are crucial for healthy and expected social development. We are ultimately interested in whether this displacement of entertainment influences levels of delayed gratification. Our research question is to see whether exposure to technology during certain periods of development where socialization is importantl, more specifically elementary to early high school aged children, affect rates of delayed gratification. Many studies have been done on how technology has an impact on older adolescents and undergraduate students (Wilmer & Chein, 2016), so it will be interesting to compare the results of our study and see if there is a large difference between age groups. Many studies have proven how the use of technology has had poor impacts on delayed gratification (Wilmer & Chein, 2017). Some other more recent studies have gone on to prove that over a vast amount of years delayed gratification in children has slowly been increasing (Protzko, 2020).
Our research question is “ Does exposure to technology during sensitive periods of development where socialization is crucial have an impact on rates of delayed gratification?”.
Our hypothesis is that lower levels of delayed gratification are predicted by the exposure to technology during social development for children in elementary school to early high school. We will compare the data gathered from the child’s parent or guardian and divide it into two young participant groups—one with heavy technology exposure and the other with lesser technology exposure—to see whether there are differences in the rates of delayed gratification among those children. Consequently, this comparison will shed light on whether technology usage at important stages of social development affects levels of delayed gratification.
In order to conduct this study we have chosen a few core sources that would help us come up with a conclusion. These are the past research that show a relationship between high rates of instant gratification and frequent technology use.
1. Wilmer, H.H., Chein, J.M. Mobile technology habits: patterns of association among device usage, intertemporal preference, impulse control, and reward sensitivity. Psychon Bull Rev 23, 1607–1614 (2016).
https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1011-z
2. Chin-Siang Ang & Kam-Fong Lee (2017) Ability to Resist Temptations of Technology Use: A Qualitative Analysis of Children’s Views on Factors Associated with Delay of Gratification, The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 178:5, 291-297, DOI: 10.1080/00221325.2017.1355773
3. Khetarpal, S. (2018, Jan 14). Social bubble: The perils of instant gratification on social media. Business Today, Retrieved from https://www.lib.uwo.ca/cgi-bin/ezpauthn.cgi?url=http://search.proquest.com/magazines/social-bubble/docview/1981615716/se-2
4. Panek, E. T. (2013). Immediate media: How instant gratification, self-control, and the expansion of media choice affect our everyday lives (Order No. AAI3530766). Available From APA PsycInfo®. (1435853594; 2013-99151-146). Retrieved from https://www.lib.uwo.ca/cgi-bin/ezpauthn.cgi?url=http://search.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/immediate-media-how-instant-gratification-self/docview/1435853594/se-2
5. Protzko, J. (2020). Kids these days! increasing delay of gratification ability over the past 50 years in children. Intelligence, 80, 101451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2020.101451
2. Method in brief
A researcher is to first explain the study’s objective to the participants via an electronically provided recruitment letter. Participants will be informed that they will be participating in a questionnaire that will be assessing aspects of their child associated with the field of developmental psychology. A survey link will be provided, transferring participants to Qualtrics, the online platform in which the study will be conducted on. The participants will immediately be prompted with a Letter of Information, providing details required for participants to make an informed decision concerning their participation in the study. Participants will indicate agreement by continuing with the study. Upon agreement, participants will first be asked to provide some demographic information including their child’s gender identity, age, education, etc. Scenario-type questions will follow the demographics, asking participants to indicate their expectation regarding their child’s behavior in a given scenario. A sample question reads as follows:
“Does your child’s electronic device distract them from their daily activities?”
The survey will conclude when participants have provided an answer to all questions and click the submission button. Participants will finally be debriefed and thanked for their participation, concluding the study on the participants end.
3. Analysis. Briefly describing how the data will be analyzed.
This survey will involve the retrieval of data involving the measurement of technology use for children aged between 9 and 15. From this data, we will find the study variables, such as the means and standard deviations, to help us have a sense of the distribution of data and any notable deviations. We will then compare subgroups within our sample. We will be separating our participants into two groups in the end, those two groups being children who spent a large amount of time using technology in a day, and those who spend little amounts of time. These subgroups will be created from the information gathered throughout the qualtrics survey. To measure and analyze this data we will be using a correlation analysis. This correlation will allow us to compare the data in the most effective way. We will be able to clearly divide the children who spend a significantly more amount of time using technology than others. We will then take the data from those two subgroups and compare any differences in how it impacts the child’s delayed gratification. From here, we will draw conclusions from the response patterns to each question, also considering the patterns drawn from the subgroup’s response distributions. We will then present the study’s findings. Here we will include any limitations of the study and possible implications for future studies.
The data were analyzed through a statistical analysis called JASP.
Provided below are the data set information
JASP Data HTML
Link to the survey ; https://uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3f3sMhwgpp371cO https://uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3f3sMhwgpp371cO https://uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3f3sMhwgpp371cO
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