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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4794678" data-attributes="member: 54707">I used to be a psychologist, a long time ago.I can second the advice given above. For both pragmatic and professional reasons.Others have also given good advice.You need not just a general set of objectives, but absolutely definable, and measurable goals tested through experimentation as regards both your project and your paper.And you need a narrowly focused target as regards the exact subjects or patients, and their prior and developing conditional state, you want to address.Later on your can take your findings and then expound upon those as presenting possibilities for future experiments, and for the development of potential future "treatment methods and protocols."Something you may want to consider bringing up in your paper is the idea of "interactive and inter-reactive treatment methods" and then see how your gaming experiment as treatment model measures up as an effective methodology.Another thing, since you mentioned young children as being your likely subjects of interest then I think you quite right as choosing a fantasy vehicle as the basis upon which to test your hypothesis (you need a carefully chosen and distinct one). I say this because young children seem to naturally gravitate towards prospects of the imagination, and show great interest in such subject matter, to which much of fantasy is intimately tied.However I didn't think that I would stress too highly, in my opinion, the disconnect between the real world and the game environments or you will lose the pragmatic value of the correlation between in-game problem solving (as an example of one of your possible aims) and real world problem solving. Even at a young age ideally you would want your subjects to intuitively come to understand the intrinsic value of making "self-correlations" between any in-game skill advatantages they are developing, and how they might apply the same principles and techniques to real world problems. That is if you have to instruct and prove to the children the value of correlation, if they do not come to a sort of intuitive understanding, then your treatment method is really instructional. But if it is intuitively grasped (as a naturally understood correlation method, or even just as a useful analogical technique), to some lesser or greater degree, by most, or even by many of the involved subjects, then this demonstrates something about your method that instructional reinforcement or explanation does not. I hope you understand my implication.In any case I still remember my dissertation. Even have a copy of it somewhere.It was fun, and very involved, to do.Anywho, however the case develops, good luck and Godspeed with your project, paper, and degree.Let us know how things continue to develop.</blockquote>

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