Practicals for Psychology

Description

Practicals for Psychology provides a set of materials that allows introduductory level students to select and devise their own practicals with the minimum of supervision. Each practical can be replicated without specialist equipment. The book includes:

* Twenty studies, covering a wide range of topics and methodologies

* Points to think about including the ethical and methodological issues raised by the studies

* A 'Do-It-Yourself' section for each key study, showing students how to design their own practical

* How to write up the practical, incorporating an actual student report with comments by an examiner

* Questionnaires and word lists.

Reviews

'The workbook is highly supportive of students struggling with the demands of designing their own investigations.' - Times Education Supplement

'I think it has tremendous potential. The workbook is an accessible guide for introductory students to begin carrying our their own psychological research, with some guidance from teachers, tutors, or lecturers. In addition, the book is a useful resource for tutors and beginning lecturers in psychology, from which to develop their own practical classes.' - Sonja J. Ellis, Loughborough University, in BPS Newsletter 2000

Contents

How to Use this Book. Acknowledgements. Part I: Biological Psychology. Fruit Machine Addiction in Adolescence. Lateral Dominance and Aesthetic Preference. Part II: Cognitive Psychology. Football Knowledge and Memory. Eyewitness Identification. Interference and Cued Recall. Learning English Morphology. Demonstrating Perceptual Set. Part III: Developmental Psychology. Gender Content of Children's Books. Parental Authority and Self-esteem. Two Moral Orientations. Birth Order, Family Size and IQ. Part IV: Social Psychology. Election Campaign Commercials. Mere Presence and Social Facilitation. Weather, Mood and Helping Behaviour. The Effects of Physical Attractiveness. Defensive Attribution. Attitudes and Classical Conditioning. Product Personalities. Part V: Other. ESP: A 'Sheep-goat effect'. The Response of Black Bears to Human Company. Writing the Report. A Student Report. Appendix I: Useful Words. Appendix II: Statistical Techniques.

Author Bio

Cara Flanagan is an experienced author and reviser for AS and A2 Level Psychology.

Related Subjects

1. Introductory Psychology
2. Introductory Psychology - undergraduate