User:Joyb3/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Experimental psychology

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I am considering pursuing experimental psychology for graduate school, and I want to work as much as possible on topics associated with my field. This will give me better insight into what I am getting myself into and may give some helpful insight.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section: The leading section was short (which is not a point against them) but left me confused at certain parts. There is a line that talks about the "processes that underlie it," but I was not sure what "it" was referring to. Another thing is that the leading section talks about how Ex. Psychologists study many topics and list some. Some of these are mentioned again and have a section devoted to them. Others are not mentioned at all again. Someone could redo this section entirely.

The content is good, covering the history, methodology, research design, and experimental instruments. I do not know if experimental instruments are relevant enough to warrant such a length section, but maybe not. It also has a small section devoted to research areas under experimental methods, and this area could use work. The leading section talks about research topics in experimental psychology but does not list all of them here in research areas under experimental psychology. Someone should rectify this so all the information in the lead section is mentioned on the page. Also, there are no citations in the section, except one in the first line of the heading part of this section. There is also a section for the IRB, but the content does not seem relevant or match the tone of the rest of the article.

For the sources themselves, they are, for the most part, peer-reviewed sources. However, there are very few sources and very few citations for such a large page as this one. Even the Talk page is quite alive, with individuals going back and forth over the contents of this page and its relevancy to the topic in general.