Literature Review:This is where you’ll review the current state of the literature concerning your research topic. You’re welcome to include more than the minimum of 6 articles and you can include as many reviews/meta-analyses as you want (but only one can count toward the 6 article total). Start this section with a general overview of the topic and why it’s important, then dive into critiques of individual articles. When discussing a particular article you should start with a description of the research question or aim of the study, then discuss the methodology (sample size, sample selection methods, methods of measuring each variable, confounds that were controlled for, etc.), and briefly summarize the findings. You will close with a discussion of the methodological strengths and weaknesses of the study. This last portion is worth paying special attention to. Be sure to consider as many topics from lecture as possible (e.g., confounds, external validity, internal validity, etc.). Each article summary/review should be a page to a page and a half. Proposed study:Discuss the methodological weaknesses that were common to the overall body of literature you reviewed. Which areas of knowledge or methodology need to be filled in? What questions should be asked to further our understanding of the topic? Both the hypothesis and methodology of your study should directly tie in to the articles you reviewed. Your hypothesis should be a natural extension of those article’s findings and your experiment’s design should address the overall methodological weaknesses you identified in the literature.