Mark Forshaw

Your Undergraduate Psychology Project

A Student Guide

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Produktbeschreibung

Your Undergraduate Psychology Project: A Student Guide has been designed with the needs of the student in mind. Packed with hints and tips, and written in a simple, informal style, this 'second supervisor' is designed to ease students further into the world of research.

The second edition has been completely revised and updated with new material on focus groups and ethics and a new section entitled How to Lose Marks Instantly.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 14566998000
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2013
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9780470669983
• ISBN-10: 0470669985
• Artikelnr.: 36880320

Autorenporträt

Mark Forshaw is Director of Endpoint Development and Outcomes Assessment at Adelphi Values, UK, having previously been a Principal Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Centre for Health Psychology at Staffordshire University. He is Chair of the BPS Membership Standards Board, and a Trustee of the BPS, and the winner of the BPS Division of Health Psychology Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Advancement of Health Psychology 2011. He is the author of many books, including Critical Thinking for Psychology: A Student Guide (Wiley, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface xi Acknowledgements xiii 1. Planning Research 1 Choosing a Research
Topic 1 The textbook method 2 The television method 3 The pub chat or
coffee bar method 4 The internet method 5 The lecturer method 5 Think
again! 5 Self-interest 6 Replication versus Novelty 7 Pure versus Applied
Research 8 Researching the Project: Finding Literature 9 Using internet
search engines 10 Snowballing and searching via citations 10 Using
electronic databases 12 Boolean operators 12 Narrowing searches 13 How many
references? 15 Statistics on the internet 16 Choosing a Method 16
Single-case designs 17 Case studies 17 Choosing qualitative methods 18
Differences or relationships? 21 Primary or secondary data? 22
Observational methods 23 Protocol analysis 24 Multiple methods 25 Control
Groups 25 Matching Methods to Analysis 26 Power Analysis 27 To Pilot or Not
to Pilot 28 Developing Materials 29 Experimental stimuli 29 Questionnaires
31 Looking professional 35 Interviews 36 Cross-cultural studies and
translation of materials 39 'Borrowing' Materials 40 The Internet as a
Research Tool 40 Managing Time: Keeping on Track 42 Start early 42 Match
the project to the time available 42 Overplanning 43 Plan B 43 Response
rates 45 Your supervisor's time 46 Project milestones 46 Tips on managing
time 47 Writing a Proposal 51 Research Ethics 52 Informed consent 53 Undue
pressure 55 Deception 55 Protection of participants from harm and
'acceptable' risk 55 Incentives 56 Withdrawal 56 Confidentiality 56
Debriefing 57 Personal safety 57 Obtaining Ethical Clearance 58 Getting
Started 59 2. Doing Research: Collecting Data 61 Student-Supervisor
Relations 62 Pilot Studies 65 Dealing with People 66 Being an ambassador 67
Working with participants 70 When participants don't understand or make
mistakes 75 Conducting Interviews: The Practicalities 76 Focus Groups 77
Observational Studies 78 Relying on Equipment 81 Making Back-ups 81
Adjusting Your Project Milestones 82 Taking Part Yourself 82 Revisiting
Data 83 Transcribing Interviews 84 The Paper Trail 85 Knowing When to Stop
86 Data Preparation 86 Conducting Statistical Analyses 87 3. Writing Up
Research 91 An Overview 92 Notes on Style 93 A Note on Plagiarism 94
Section by Section 96 Title 96 Abstract 99 Introduction 100 Method 103
Replicability 112 Results 113 Discussion 120 Generalising your findings 123
References 124 Appendices 128 Qualitative Reports 129 The first person 129
Introduction 130 Methods 130 Results/Analysis/Discussion 131 First, Second
and Third Drafts 132 Common Mistakes 133 Affect and effect 134 Data 134
Experiment and study 134 Joining words together 134 Incorrect apostrophes
135 Incorrect sentences 136 Latin phrases and other borrowings 137
Non-significant 137 Number and amount 137 Prefixes 138 Presenting numbers
139 Proof 139 Reporting probabilities 140 Separating words 140 Significant
diff erences 141 Spelling IV and DV 141 When It's All Over 143 4. How To
Lose Marks Instantly 145 List of Things NOT to do! 145 Go it alone and
ignore your supervisor's advice 145 Be precious about your work 146 Ignore
the required format 146 Conduct research with no point to it 146 Bite off
more than you can chew 147 Ignore relevant literature, or fail to look hard
enough for it 147 Run out of time 147 Use the wrong reference format 148
Argue yourself out of a perfectly good result 148 Plagiarise 149 Conduct
the wrong analysis 149 Collect data without ethical approval 149 Set out
the entire project with a massive design flaw in it 150 The Moral of the
Tale 150 References 151 Further Reading 153 Index 155