1. Psychology Life Hack of the Week
Want to sharpen your mind and boost your mood? A brisk, 15- minute walk or jog outside has immediate benefits for cognitive functioning and subjective sense of well-being (Legrand, 2018)

2. RESEARCH METHODS: PAIR PASSWORD
Instructions
Work in pairs/threes
One person sits with their back to the board, the other person/people sit facing the board
Those facing the board have to describe each of the words presented WITHOUT using the word itself
The person with their back to the board scores one mark for each word/phrase they correctly guess

3. Standardisation
Empiricism
Deception
Confounding variable
Protection from harm
Repeated measures
Investigator effects
Field experiment
Debrief
Matched pairs
Random allocation
Code of ethics
Quasi experiment
Ethical issue
Replicability

4. Demand characteristics
Objectivity
Lab experiment
Demand characteristics
Experimental design
Independent groups
Extraneous variable
Randomisation
Right to withdraw
Informed consent
Hypothesis testing
Counterbalancing
Natural experiment
Confidentiality
Control
Pilot study

5. Where are we??

7. Lesson 6: Experimental Methods Research Practical
- Writing Up Your Study
All students will collate their data from the research practical.
All students will draft the results section for their research practical report.
All students should draft a discussion section for their research practical report.
All students could draft a introduction section for their research practical report.

8. Collating the Data
Each table: transfer your results to the A3 data collection sheet:
Stick this on the wall/whiteboard near your table.

9. Collating the Data
Individually: complete the ‘Master Data Sheet’ on page 5 of your lesson handout.
Calculate the mean score for condition A (words only) and condition B (words and images).

10. Describing Your Results
Create a table to show the mean scores for each condition (see page 2 of the lesson handout). Don’t forget to add a title, describing what the table shows.
Condition A
Condition B
Number of participants
Mean score
Draw a suitable graph to show the mean scores for each condition (see page 2).

11. Page 3

13. Discussion
Read, discuss and make brief notes in response to the questions on page 4.
➢ What did you find (briefly describe the results of the study)?
➢ Does this evidence support the research hypothesis?
Do we accept or reject the hypothesis that “participants shown words and corresponding images will recall more words than participants shown words only”?
➢ Are your findings consistent with Craik and Lockhart’s theory

14. Discussion ➢ What were the limitations of the study
Opportunity sample – no random allocation (participant variables)
Standardisation – multiple investigators, different locations, times (control)
Procedure – standardisation (e.g. timing of stimulus list presentation); no use of questions to direct processing (cf. Craik and Tulving’s study).
Other researchers have found that distinctive stimuli or stimuli that were more difficult to analyse were better recalled.

15. Discussion
➢ If you were to do the experiment again, how could you improve it?
➢ Do the results have any implications for further research or for real-world applications?
Use the sources cited on page 4 to help you develop your discussion.

16. The Report Use workbook 2 to help you structure your report
It should be in the region of words
Title: ‘An investigation of …’
Use the correct format for references:
Flanagan, C., Berry, D, Jarvis, M. and Liddle, R. (2015) AQA Psychology for A Level: year 1 & AS. Cheltenham: Illuminate Publishing
Illuminate Publishing (2015) AQA Psychology for A Level Year 1 and AS. [ONLINE] Available at: [Accessed 11 October 2018]
Appendices – master data sheet and consent forms.

17. The Completed Research Report is due …
First lesson back after half-term
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Draft the discussion and/or introduction section of your research report.

18. Work in tables.
Put the money on the answer you think is correct.
If you are not sure what the answer is, you can place your money on more than one trapdoor.
However, you MUST leave at least one of the trapdoors free.
Only the money that is placed on the trapdoor with the correct answer will go through to the next round.
The aim is to keep as much money as possible!

19. NOT part of the method section of a research report:
Abstract
Materials
Procedure
Design

20. NOT part of the method section of a research report:
Abstract

21. A type of experiment: Independent groups Field Repeated measures
Matched pairs

22. A type of experiment:
Field

23. An extraneous variable associated with the independent groups design:
Random allocation
Order effects
Participant variables
Use of the same materials

24. An extraneous variable associated with the independent groups design:
Participant variables

25. A study examined how being adopted early (under 6 months) or later affected cognitive functioning. This is …
A quasi experiment
A field experiment
A natural experiment
A lab experiment

26. A study examined how being adopted early (under 6 months) or later affected cognitive functioning. This is …
A natural experiment

27. Deliberately misleading or withholding information from participants is:
Confidentiality
Debriefing
Deception

28. Deliberately misleading or withholding information from participants is:
Deception

29. Obtaining consent from a group of people similar to the participants of a study is:
Informed consent
Presumptive consent
Prior general consent

30. Obtaining consent from a group of people similar to the participants of a study is:
Presumptive consent

31. A confounding variable An extraneous variable A demand characteristic
A variable that changes systematically with the IV, so that we cannot tell what caused changes in the DV is known as …
A confounding variable
An extraneous variable
A demand characteristic

32. A confounding variable
A variable that changes systematically with the IV, so that we cannot tell what caused changes in the DV is known as …
A confounding variable

33. The reason why a psychologist might run a pilot study:
To test the hypothesis
To trial the procedure and materials

34. The reason why a psychologist might run a pilot study:
To trial the procedure and materials