Proposal example
Methodological Plan
- Subject
- Psychology
- Type
- Proposal
- Citation style
- APA 6
- Length
- 5 pages
About this sample
The paper sets out a methodological plan for an observational study of repetitive behaviour in people with autism. It describes the participant profile, sampling procedures and selection criteria, then outlines a structured observation approach during a timed jogging exercise on a cycle ergometer. The sections progress from participants to sampling to data collection methods.
- autism participant selection
- sampling criteria
- structured observation
- repetitive behaviour recording
- cycle ergometer exercise
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Potential Participants
Each of the participants that were in the experimental groups were diagnosed with autism in alignment with the benchmarks of the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). Multiple investigations involved a control group. Jointly, 120 people with autism took part in the experiment. Age and gender was documented for 100 participants: 45 were males and 55 female, and the average age was 15 years. The distribution of gender harmonized with the male/female ration accounted for the autistic individuals.
Sampling Procedures
Sampling implies the approach utilized in selecting a specified number of persons from a populace (Grand Canyon University, 2017). Participants in this research study were not randomly chosen. Each participant was selected from a small population of 120 residents from the State of Maryland that had been diagnosed with autism. The following criterion was used in the selection of participants: I. The participant had the physical ability to comply with the equipment and jogging exercises that were part of the study.
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