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Where do psychologists get their ideas and information from
1. Where do Psychologists
get their information
and ideas from?
• Describe different research
methods in Psychology
• Explain why specific methods
may be used
• Assess how methods affect the
information you read
2. Think back to last week’s
reading material.
Why do you think they included different arguments and
different information on the same topic?
3. One reason could be that
they chose different methods
A psychologist’s methods are how they
choose to conduct their research. How
they gathered their evidence.
Research methods are connected to
their research aims and questions: what
they want to find out or test.
It’s the steps they go through to conduct
their research.
Some methods suit an aim more than
others.
4. In your groups, list the possible methods you think a Psychologist
might use.
5. Let’s look a little closer
• Each group has got a different research method
that can be used in Psychology.
• In your group, do some online research on that
method.
• Can you now describe and explain it?
• When might it be used?
• What possible strengths and weaknesses could
it have?
• Be ready to share with the whole group
6. So where do these
methods fit into the bigger
picture of Psychology?
Where are there
similarities and
differences?
Which do you think you
have come across in your
reading so far and how did
it affect the information?
8. Online learning
In quizzes, go to Week 5 and
complete the research methods
activity.
Continue with your blog. You
may want to refer directly to the
group research you did this
lesson.
Editor's Notes
3-5 minutes including thinking time. This is meant to help them connect the material from week to week but also start to see how academic work is produced. Gather their ideas and validate each but push on anything that relates to conducting research differently. Don’t worry if they don’t get there! You could start to ask them whether that could be a reason.
5 minutes to explain. You could stress that they will be looking at these far more closely next semester in Skills and Perspective II but they are being introduced here to help them think about their reading more deeply, and about Psychology as a subject. They may even want to summarise the methods used in assignment 1.
5-7 minutes just to get some quick ideas together. Then bring them back together to review their ideas for a few more minutes – ask them why they think a psychologist may use the method to get them starting to explain the possible uses of different methods so they are basically discovering them for themselves. If they could create something like a word cloud, that would be great.
15-20 minutes with another 10 minutes or so feeding back and discussing. Put them into small groups (maybe threes) for this. Give each group a specific research method (you decide which!) to research. This is also a useful place to remind them of the types of online sources they should and should not be using! You could ask them to also share which sources they used with you afterwards.
10 minutes. This is the point to start bringing their contributions together and highlight that no method stands in absolute isolation from the others (e.g. same aim but different methods used to test etc). Psychology, as with any academic field, is made up of research done in a number of ways, research that speaks to each other, that can be compared and evaluated – you could bring in some reliability and validity here if they seem to be getting on well with the basics
Quick plenary around the group – each student to say which one(s) they would like to use if they were doing research and why. The why is the most important aspect really in order to check their grasp on the session’s material.
