The aims of this assignment are to (a) consolidate your understanding of correlation andmultiple regression, including moderated multiple regression, and (b) give you practice inwriting up the results of such analyses in the appropriate APA 7th format (i.e., 7th edition ofthe Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association). Using the Introductionbelow and the SPSS data file that is provided online (a2 data PSYC3010 2021.sav), your taskis to conduct the relevant analyses and complete the research report by writing the Method,Results and Discussion sections. You need to:(1) Describe in sufficient detail the participants, measures and procedure. Make sureyou describe how the key constructs were measured, and report scale reliabilities where thisinformation is available. N.B. the use of subheadings for the different constructs within theMeasures section may be helpful.20 marks(2) Report and interpret the results. Report and interpret the results of the preliminaryanalyses. Report and interpret the statistical tests that correspond to each prediction andappend the SPSS syntax used to test the hypotheses. Describe the procedure of analyseswhere appropriate.If the predicted interaction (Hypothesis 3) is significant, you will need to: (a) follow it upusing simple slopes analysis, (b) graph the interaction, and (c) report tests of the simpleslopes. Download the Excel Macro file created by Prof. Louis for plotting simple slopes(available in the Assignment 2 folder on Blackboard; also see tutorial notes). You may usethe Excel Macro file to plot the simple slopes. You may also use hand calculations, but youmust still create a graph (with error bars) in Excel for inclusion in the text. N.B.
