Extra Credit 2: Understand Correlation and Other Basic Research Concepts

Activity to do:

• STEP 1 – THE RESEARCH IDEA: Studies
  exploring the relationship between certain personality characteristics
  and aggressive driving often focus on the traits of anger, hostility,
  and aggression (e.g., Deffenbacher, Huff, Lynch, Oetting, &
  Salvatore, 2000; Lajunen & Parker, 2001; Matthews & Norris,
  2002). But what about competitiveness? Could it be that some people who drive aggressively are very competitive, and just want to “to win,” “get ahead,” or “be first?”?
  • Share your experiences with aggressive driving, either as the
    target of an aggressive driver or as an aggressive driver, themselves.
    Think about the kinds of personality traits that might covary with the
    tendency to drive aggressively.
• STEP 2 – TURNING THE IDEA INTO AN EMPIRICAL QUESTION: Is there a relationship between competitiveness and aggressive driving?
• STEP 3 – DOING LIBRARY RESEARCH: I will start you off with some useful descriptors (driving behavior, highway safety, personality) and a full text review article on the topic (Sharkin, B. (2004). Road rage: Risk factors, assessment, and intervention strategies. Journal of Counseling and Development,82(2),191-198.) You must then find one more primary
  research articles from peer-reviewed journals to include in your
  report. So here, have the two citations and a 1-2 sentence summary of
  what they did/found
• STEP 4: Take the “Aggressive Driving Survey,”
  and rate on how much you feel it describes you. Do you think there are
  other and perhaps more valid ways of measuring it, such as by actually
  observing someone driving. What are the trade-offs that we often must
  make when we conduct research, where it is sometimes not feasible to
  conduct a study in the manner we would like. This raises the issue of
  methodological limitations, as well as the advantages and disadvantages
  of field and laboratory research.So here, I’d take the AGGRESSIVE DRIVING SURVEY – 1) note your score and rate on how much you feel it describes you. 2) Do you think there are other and perhaps more valid ways of measuring it, such as by actually observing someone driving?3) What are the trade-offs that we often must make when we conduct
  research, where it is sometimes not feasible to conduct a study in the
  manner we would like?

Each answer should be about
3-4 sentences. Aim for a paragraph. Feel free to use your textbook and
any other sites you may have access to. Please include a reference page
in APA format at the end.

Please include a reference page in APA format

Submission: Your paper will be submitted via
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will immediately be run through Turnitin.com, an automated system that
instructors can use to quickly and easily compare each student’s
assignment with billions of web sites, as well as an enormous database
of student papers that grows with each submission. Turnitin will send me
a report that states if and how another author’s work was used in the
assignment. That is, it checks for plagiarism. As stated in the Course Policies plagiarism is a violation of the Golden Rule and is therefore completely unacceptable. Thus any plagiarized work will result in a 0 for that Assignment. This assignment will not be dropped from the calculation of your overall course grade.

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Grading: Scores will be posted / unmuted once all
submissions have been scored and reviewed. I will post an
announcement after all assignment submissions have been scored.

Help for writing:

If you have difficulty writing and need assistance please contact the
university center for writing excellence. They have the resources to
help all UCF students with writing. You can take them the assignment
& a rough draft & they can help with grammar & syntax and is
a great resource. They even help with resumes! The UWC webpage is: http://guides.ucf.edu/writingcenter

• Paper should be original work that has been both grammar and spell
  checked. You can answer the question directly (meaning include question
  or just have the number) and responses should be about 6-8 sentences
  each. Work should be double-spaced and should have plenty of citations
  in APA format! It should also have a reference page attached.
• All submissions will be run through Turnitin so please do not
  plagiarize at it is a violation of the university honor code. If you are
  confused about plagiarism, please see files under module “ancillaries”
  for assistance

If you need more help on how to summarize an article:

Best APA site out there: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/563/1/ Links to an external site.

Andrews University: Guidelines for Writing an Article Summary Links to an external site.

UConn: How to Summarize a Research ArticleLinks to an external site.

Plagiarism:

Any direct quotation MUST be placed within quotes and
cited. Citing alone does not make it not plagiarized! As I am not
allowing ANY quotation this should not even be an issue!

Citing merely tells the reader where the information is coming
from – using direct quotations “” tells the reader it is a direct quote
from someone else. Why is this important? Well
chiefly, it’s not your words or work. Secondly, if you have the reader
feels the information is wrong they can seek out the original source to
verify that information a) wasn’t taken out of context or b) is indeed
wrong.

Remember, you are typically better off loosing points for having nothing in your own words that plagiarizing someone else.

Course policy is that any plagiarism results in an automatic 0 on the assignment.

University policy is that this is a violation of the university honor code and as such must be reported!!!

So please do NOT plagiarize!

I have a have a guide for you at: Plagiarism & Citing