1. Formation of relationships Matching Hypothesis
Introduction to Year 2 Psychology

2. Learning Objective:
To continue your personal investigation into the matching hypothesis.
Success Criteria
Find 10 images of couples, celebrities or non- celebrities, that can be rated from 1-10 for attractiveness.
Create a data collection sheet for your participants to complete.
Prepare for the ethics committee in your group.

3. Make sure that you... Complete remaining tasks from last lesson:
Create standardised instructions
Explain what ppts will do
Ensure you include a check of understanding.
Create a consent form.
There are two main sections of a consent form:
A brief account of what students will do in the study
A description of their ethical rights
Create a standardised debrief
Conduct research into Murstein, Walster et al. and 1-2 other studies.

4. Method Find images of 10 married couples
Males on one sheet
Females on a second sheet
Copy and paste the web address for every image you find into your references section.
Create a data collection sheet that can be given to each of your 50 participants (e.g. age, gender, location, student or not etc)
Prepare for the ethics committee
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5. Ethics Committee
You’ve now conducted your background research. Before you go any further you need to attend a meeting with the Ethical Committee.
In order to prepare for the meeting you need:
A consent form
Standardised instructions
Details of the method you will use
A copy of the introduction in order for the board to read

6. Final Task Print all work completed so far:
Consent form
Instructions
Debrief
Data collection sheets
Additional research into the matching hypothesis
You will need this next lesson.

7. Learning Objective:
To continue your personal investigation into the matching hypothesis.
Success Criteria
Find 10 images of couples, celebrities or non- celebrities, that can be rated from 1-10 for attractiveness.
Create a data collection sheet for your participants to complete.
Prepare for the ethics committee in your group.