PSY259 End-of-Course Assessment 

Instructions to students

1. This End-of-Course Assessment paper contains ONE (1) question and comprises FIVE (5) pages (including the cover page).
2. You are to include the following particulars in your submission: Course Code, Title of the ECA, SUSS PI No., Your Name, and Submission Date.
3. Ensure that you submit your End-of-Course Assessment by the deadline. After the 12-hour grace period, 10% of the total End-of-Course Assessment mark will be deducted for each 24-hour block or part thereof by which your submission is late. Submissions with more than 50 marks deducted will be awarded 0 marks.
4. You are allowed multiple submissions to Turnitin before the deadline. After the deadline, only one submission is allowed, and only if you have not already made a prior submission.
5. If you fail to submit your End-of-Course Assessment, you will be deemed to have withdrawn from the course.

Important Note

ECA Submission Deadline: 16 April 2026 (Thursday) 12:00 Noon   

Please read this information before you start working on your ECA.

This ECA carries 50% of the course marks and is a compulsory component.  It is to be done individually and not collaboratively with other students.  You must submit it on time.

Submission

You are to submit the end-of-course assignment (ECA) in exactly the same manner as your tutor-marked assignments (TMA), i.e., using Canvas. Submission in any other manner such as hardcopy or any other means will not be accepted. Ensure that you submit your ECA by the deadline. After the 12-hour grace period, 10% of the total ECA mark will be deducted for every 24-hour block or part thereof by which your submission is late. Submissions with more than 50 marks deducted will be awarded 0 marks. You are allowed multiple submissions to Turnitin before the deadline, after which only one submission is allowed, and only if you have not already previously submitted. If you fail to submit your ECA, you will be deemed to have withdrawn from the course.

You are reminded that electronic transmission is not always immediate.  It is possible that network traffic may be particularly heavy on the cut-off date, and connections to the system cannot be guaranteed.  Hence, you are advised to submit your work no later than the day before the cut-off date in order to make sure that the submission is accepted and in good time.

Once you have submitted your ECA, the status is displayed on the computer screen. You will receive a digital acknowledgement message.  Please note that it is the digital time-stamp—and not the acknowledgement message—that indicates that you have submitted your ECA.  To ensure a timely submission and to have your ECAs marked, you should therefore not jeopardise your course result by submitting your ECA at the last minute.

Do ensure that you have the correct files for submission. It is your responsibility to ensure that you have uploaded your file(s) completely and accurately to the correct submission link. All inaccurate submissions will be treated as a null submission. Any submission, extra files, missing appendices or corrections received separately after the submission of the ECA will not be considered in the grading of your ECA assignment.

Plagiarism and Collusion

The University takes a very serious view of plagiarism (passing off someone else’s ideas as your own; recycling of contents from your own earlier marked TMA from the same course or another course; or passing off AI-generated content as your own) and collusion (submitting an assignment which is the same or very similar to another student’s). Both are forms of cheating, and neither is acceptable in any form in a student’s work, including this ECA assignment.

Avoid plagiarism by giving yourself sufficient time to research and understand the material so that you can write up your assignment in your own words and ensure that you provide appropriate references when necessary. If AI is used, ensure that the AI tool is properly cited, and ensure that you write your response entirely using your own words. Even when paraphrased slightly, AI-generated text can still be flagged as plagiarism. You can avoid collusion by ensuring that your submission is based on your own individual effort.

Penalties for plagiarism and collusion are severe. Serious cases will normally result in the student being referred to SUSS’s Student Disciplinary Group. For other cases, significant marking penalties or expulsion from the course may be imposed. For more information about the University’s policies on plagiarism and collusion, refer to the Student Handbook (Section 5.2, paragraph 1.3).

ECA Submission Guidelines

Please follow the submission instructions stated below:

Please upload this assignment to Turnitin by Thursday, 16 April 2026, 12:00 noon. Resubmissions are allowed before this cut-off time.

Submit your research study together with your cover page, in a single file (saved as MS word file), to the submission link titled ECA.

Marks allocation at a glance

(Full marks: 100) 

Question 1

[Word Count: 2500 words (excluding references and appendices)]

This ECA requires you to design and conduct a simple experiment that will be written up as a report. According to “Do you dip or pour the sauce? What your eating style says about you” (KorMedi, 2025), our eating styles can be grouped into nine categories which reflect certain personality traits. “You can hide it for a few meals, but eventually, your true habits show,” so the author claims.

Through your own research study, demonstrate knowledge of the genetics approach in personality theory to examine the credibility of this claim and also KorMedi’s eating style categories. Your submission shall take into account the following:

Preparation (conceptualisation/drafting) stage

• Conceptualise a research question and hypothesis(es) that will recognise the extent to which a personality perspective from the genetics approach may apply to contemporary ideas pertaining to eating styles as suggested by KorMedi (2025).
• Design a research study to examine your research question to fulfil the experimental component of this ECA. A hypothetical hypothesis could look like, “the longer one takes to finish a meal, the less agreeable one is,” that is drawn from what KorMedi states about slow eaters.

Execution stage

• The first section of your report is the Introduction as in a standard APA report that explores current literature on relevant concepts that serve as a basis for your conceptualisation. This introduction must be supported by theoretical and empirical material, in addition to in-text citations from at least 5 different academic sources.
• This section should conclude with your research study’s objectives and hypothesis(es).

(30%)

• The Method section shares your methodology and informs your reader about your participants (minimum sample size 12 participants), variables, procedure, and proposed data analysis. This course does not test statistical knowhow and you are not required to use inferential statistics like t-tests or ANOVA. Focus on relevant descriptive statistics to explore and review your data.
• Your methodology should assist you to compare KorMedi’s eating style categories against a framework you develop based on empirically sound theory, i.e., your personality approach of choice.

(15%)

• In the Results section, demonstrate the importance of your findings in an integrated way that is aligned with your earlier segments of literature review, research question, and method, in order to offer a smooth, eloquent investigation and analysis. State your findings and explain how they relate to your experimental hypothesis(es).
• Make use of suitable tables or figures if necessary to provide clarity in your presentation.

(20%)

• Based on the content of the aforementioned report sections, discuss whether your hypothesis(es) was/were supported. Depending on your findings, you may choose to review the limitations of your study or chosen personality approach, and/or critique KorMedi in support of your discovery in this section.
• “Eating behavior is highly instinctive,” KorMedi states. In closing for your discussion, suggest next steps for further research direction. Here, differentiate among your chosen personality approach and another theory, taken from any approach covered in this course, that accounts for the role of instincts in personality, to expand on how the latter theory would be suitable to direct future studies on eating styles.

(35%)
(95 marks)

References (5 marks) 

The References lists the full reference of all sources cited or referred to in your assignment. Intext citations also need to be presented accurately in APA format.

Note: Valid academic sources include peer-reviewed academic journal articles, academic books and book chapters. The iSmartGuide, student theses, and online websites, blog posts, or videos are NOT considered valid academic sources.   

5 marks: In-text citations and the reference list are presented in APA format with no errors.

None of the sources cited in-text are missing from the reference list and vice-versa. A minimum of 5 valid academic sources are cited.

4 marks: In-text citations and the reference list are presented in APA format but there may be one or two minor stylistic errors. There may be sources cited in-text that are missing from the reference list and vice-versa. A minimum of 5 valid academic sources are cited.

3 marks: Formatting errors are evident in the in-text citations and/or the reference list. There may be sources cited in-text that are missing from the reference list and vice-versa. A minimum of 5 valid academic sources are cited.

2 marks: Major formatting errors are evident in the in-text citations and/or the reference list. There may be sources cited in-text that are missing from the reference list and viceversa.

1 mark:  Effort was made to present a reference list even though there may only be one item listed and it contains formatting errors; in-text citations may be missing.

0 marks: In-text citations and the reference list are missing.

English competency (Deduct up to 5 marks)

No marks are allocated to English competency, but a penalty of up to 5 marks will apply for errors.

1–2 mark penalty: Minor errors present, such as typos and spelling or punctuation mistakes.

3–5 mark penalty: Major errors or a fair number of minor errors present, such as spelling or punctuation mistakes, or use of colloquial and/or non-academic writing style.

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