1. Self-report: Social practical
Perceived gender differences in obedience

2. Lesson 1 Aim: Alternate hypothesis: Non-directional
Sampling technique:
Procedure:
Ethical issues:
Begin working on questions
6 closed questions
Including 3 reversed questions in order to avoid response bias
1 qualitative 'story' using the example provided to help you
Next lesson: Questionnaire and consent form complete
Aim: general area of interest that the questionnaire is concerned with. Aims tend to be based on previous research. What does research suggest?
Hypothesis: prediction of what is likely to be found by the investigation based on previous research.

3. Examples of closed questions
How likely would a female be to agree to pick up litter if asked to by a policeman/policewoman?
Very unlikely unlikely neutral likely very likely
A female student is asked by her teacher to photocopy a pile of work, but she does not have the time. How likely is the student to say no to her teacher?
How would we score these?
Which question is reversed?

4. Qualitative data - example
Qualitative data will be gathered by asking participants to complete a story. This method is used to detect underlying attitudes people may have without directly asking them a question
Analysis can be completed by analysing the themes written about by the participant

5. Lesson 2 Consent form to be approved Questions to be checked Pilot
Construct data sheet
Come to the next lesson with all of your data (in the data table)
Do not include any of the pilot data

6. Lesson 3 Analysing data Quantitative data Qualitative data
Descriptive statistics, tables, graphs
Qualitative data
Thematic analysis
Evaluation of your study (ideas for your discussion)
Homework – to complete the report. Please hand this in next lesson using Showbie

7. Showbie – class codes

8. Complete this summary table – individually
Male perceived obedience
Female perceived obedience
Mean obedience score
Mode obedience score
Median obedience score
Range
Standard deviation
Explain what these results mean – interpret the results from the table. What conclusions can you make?
Provide graphical representation – I.e. Bar charts/ frequency chart

9. Qualitative analysis
Read page 78 – ensure you fully understand thematic analysis
Together as a group read through your comments and decide which themes have emerged
Complete the table
Then interpret the data
Table in results section
A summary of the conclusions in the discussion

10. Evaluation of your study - discussion
Group task – to discuss
Strengths
Weaknesses
Suggestions for improvement
Mind map

11. Writing up the report Abstract (summary of entire report)
Aim and Hypothesis
Method
Detailed account of participants and sampling method (who)
Apparatus(materials) (what)
Procedure (detailed account of how the study was conducted from the pilot study to data analysis. Including how ethical guidelines were followed throughout (I.e. consent form being signed, confidentiality, right to withdraw, deception, debrief….)Remember that the study should be replicable. Therefore someone should be able to read your procedure and have all the information they need to replicate it.
Controls (what was controlled in the study?) I.e. same instructions for all participants etc…

12. Writing up the report Results
Summary table of descriptive statistics(not the data sheet)
Graphs
Qualitative table
Conclusions drawn from the data should appear in the discussion section.

13. Writing up the report Discussion
Conclusions drawn from the analysis you have made (quantitative - descriptive statistics including standard deviation and qualitative - conclusions from thematic analysis)
Strengths
Limitations
Suggestions for improvements
Appendices
Questionnaire (blank), consent form (blank), data sheet (with scores), table that you used to work out standard deviation
Completed consent forms to be checked in the lesson, do not attach these to the report