PSY101 Assignment No. 1 Fall2011 - solution soon
Friday, October 28, 2011 Posted In Psy Edit ThisSemester Fall 2011
“Introduction to Psychology (PSY101)”
Assignment No. 01 Marks: 20
“Survey”
You are supposed to conduct a survey on following topic.
Survey Topic: “Smoking Behavior”
Purpose of this Survey:
The purpose of this survey is to explore the smoking trend and smoking related behaviors.
Objectives of the Survey:
The main objectives of the current research work are as follows.
1. To study the trend of smoking
2. To determine the age in which mostly people start smoking
3. To explore the contributing factors they may predict smoking habits of youngsters.
4. To highlight the factors which trigger one’s urge to smoke.
Sample:
Select any 05 people who smoke cigarettes and get filled up the given questionnaire from them.
Apparatus
“Questionnaire”
Smoking Questionnaire:
Place a check in front of age group:
____ 18 – 20 ____ 21 – 24 ____ 25 – 30 ____ 31 – 34 ____ 35 – older
i) Gender: _______ M________F
ii) Education: ________________
iii) Married ________ Unmarried___________
1) Does one or more of your parent(s) or guardian(s) currently smoke? ____ Yes ____no
2) If yes in number 1 and 2, how many members of your immediate family (parents, uncles,
siblings and grandparents) smoke? ______
3) Do you smoke cigarettes? ____ Yes ____no
4) At what age did you begin smoking? ____________
5) Why did you begin smoking? (Enlist three main reasons)
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6) Approximately how many cigarettes do you smoke?
__________Cigarettes per day
7) What are the three main reasons you continue to smoke?
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8) Name the three places you smoke most often.
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9) What triggers your urge to smoke?
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10) Have you ever thought about the health related problems caused by smoking?
______ Yes _____ No
11) Have you ever tried to quit smoking? ____ Yes ____ No
12) If YES, how many times? ________
13) Do you feel you could stop smoking whenever you wanted to? ____ Yes ____No
Note: You are supposed to get filled up this questionnaire and send the filled copy along with your assignments as it contains 5 marks.
Instructions for report making:
Following are the steps you are supposed to follow while compiling your report.
1. Introduction
Introduce your project. For instant you can write about psychological survey methods, benefits of using survey research etc. Also write why you are conducting this survey.
Note: The words of introduction section should not exceed 100 words. (3 marks for introduction).
2. Methodology/procedure
Illustrate the procedure which you adapted to conduct this survey.
Note: The words of this section should not exceed 100 words. (2 marks for procedure).
3. Results
Prepare tables/pie charts to represent the percentage of your results. (3 marks for tabular presentation)
4. Report
This is the most important part of your report. Manage and analyze obtained data. Keeping in view the “Objectives” of this survey, compile a comprehensive report according to the acquired results and your analysis. (One single space typed page)
Note: (7 marks for report writing section but marking will be depend on the quality of produced work)
Schedule
Opening Date and Time October 26, 2011 At 12:01 A.M. (Mid-Night)
Due Date and Time November 01, 2011 At 11:59 P.M. (Mid-Night)
