Prepare a technical scientific report that focuses on your work for Investigation 1 (‘Studying sustained attention in humans’)

Prepare a technical scientific report that focuses on your work for Investigation 1 (‘Studying sustained attention in humans’), for which you collaborated with your tutor group to design and conduct an appropriate experiment. The intended audience for your report is another SXHL288 Practical science student studying the same topic.

Question 1 (50 marks)

Prepare a technical scientific report that focuses on your work for Investigation 1 (‘Studying sustained attention in humans’), for which you collaborated with your tutor group to design and conduct an appropriate experiment. The intended audience for your report is another SXHL288 Practical science student studying the same topic.

The report should be prepared, and will be marked, according to the following structure and headings.

Title

(Advisory limit: 20 words)

Produce an appropriate descriptive title for the report that succinctly describes the work. The title should be interesting and informative, such that the reader knows what to expect in the rest of the report. (2 marks)

Introduction and objectives/hypothesis

(Advisory limit: 300 words)

Briefly introduce the report by providing a short scientific background of your study, making reference to the topic materials where appropriate (for example, Introducing Attention and the brain).

Clearly state your experimental hypotheses. The wording of your hypotheses should make it clear to the reader what independent and dependent variables you have chosen.

State how you would test data for significance.