1. Reorder the words into a sentence
WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGY? of
scientific
study
The
and
behaviour
brain
Reorder the words into a sentence

2. The scientific study of the brain and behaviour
WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGY?
The scientific study of the brain and behaviour

3. Starter Task: Anagrams
Ex in Temper
Roast Bovine
Calorie Torn
Elf Porters
Summer prep deadline Friday 14/9/18

4. Starter Task: Anagrams
Ex in Temper = Experiment
Roast Bovine = observation
Calorie Torn = correlation
Elf Porters = self-reports

5. How Do Psychologists Study Behaviour?

6. There are 4 ways in which psychologists do research:
By asking people questions – but they could lie
By watching people – but they might know they are being watched
By meddling with them – but is it ethical?
By looking at the links between things – do links always show that caused something?
We call these:
1. Self - reports
2. Observations
3. Experiments
4. Correlations

7. There are 4 ways in which psychologists do research:
Experiments
Self-reports
Observations
Correlations

8. Experiments
Can manipulate one variable and keep everything else the same.
Allocate participants into groups.
If the groups think or behave differently then you know it’s the thing you have manipulated (the independent variable - IV) that caused the different result (the dependent variable - DV), as everything else was kept the same.
Evaluation
One of the most scientific ways to find evidence.
But they are often done in unrealistic environments.

9. Experiments
Identify one thing you could manipulate between two groups to see if it makes a difference in their intelligence test scores? (e.g.: hot room/cold room, drinking coffee/not drinking coffee).

10. Self-Report • Can ask people how they think and behave.
• Can conduct interviews or fill in questionnaires.
• Psychologists collect the data and make conclusions about how people think and behave.
Evaluation
• People can sometimes not understand themselves, or not tell you the truth, or only tell you about their intentions.

11. Self-Report 2. How many different ways can you conduct a self-report?
3. What is a question people are unlikely to tell you the truth about.

12. Observation • Can watch how they behave.
• Focuses on their observable behaviour.
• Gather data and make conclusions based only on what you can observe.
Evaluation
• People may change their behaviour if they know they are being observed.

13. Observation
4. Why might two different people who have observed the same event not agreed on what they saw?
5. Why might people complain about being observed?

14. Correlations
• Determining the extent of a relationship between 2 variables (things that change)
Evaluation
• Correlations tell us about the relationships between variables, but not if one variable caused the other.
• Helpful to do when it is unethical to split people into different groups and treat them differently (such as deliberate neglect of a group of children) or when it is impractical or impossible to manipulate the variables (such as make one group rich and one group poor).

15. Correlations
6. Does having no friends make us unhappy or does being unhappy make us lose friends?
7. Identify two variables that are related – positively or negatively correlated? (e.g. height/shoe size, age/intelligence)

16. Watching sleep-deprived people do tricky cognitive tasks
E.g. the effect of sleep on learning:
Ask people for their experiences of how well they perform in thinking tasks when they have been deprived of some sleep
Watching sleep-deprived people do tricky cognitive tasks
Spend time with someone with narcolepsy, using a range of techniques like interviewing them, questionnaires for their family, observing them
Depriving people of sleep and then testing them
Matching the data from a sleep quality app and A Level performance

17. How can the different research methods be used to study the same topic?
Experiment / Self-Report / Observation / Correlation
Ask people for their experiences of how well they perform in thinking tasks when deprived of some sleep.
Depriving people of sleep and then testing them using the Bop it
Matching the data from a sleep quality app and A Level performance
Watching sleep-deprived people do tricky thinking tasks

18. How can the different research methods be used to study the same topic?
Experiment / Self-Report / Observation / Correlation
Ask people for their experiences of how well they perform in thinking tasks when deprived of some sleep.
 Self-report
Depriving people of sleep and then testing them using the Bop it
 Experiment
Matching the data from a sleep quality app and A Level performance
 Correlation
Watching sleep-deprived people do tricky thinking tasks
Observation

19. Choose a topic to write about
OR what causes:
Autism
Eating disorders
Forgetfulness
People to commit crime
Phobias
Success in sport

20. Your description of HOW you will study this needs to be as detailed as possible for ‘replication’.

21. Your description of HOW you will study this needs to be as detailed as possible for ‘replication’.

22. Does watching TV improve or worsen your verbal ability?

24. No research method is perfect
No research method is perfect. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses. In Psychology we need to work out which research method is the best to use when looking at each type of behaviour.
Strengths
Weaknesses

25. When evaluating in Psychology, we have to flex our P.E.C.s
Point
Explanation of why this matters
Context

26. Flex your PECs Point Points Explanation of why this matters
Context
Points
One advantage of using correlational analysis is that if two variables are correlated, it is possible to predict one variable from the other.
One disadvantage of using correlational analysis is that even if two variables are correlated, we cannot assume that one caused the other.

27. Explanations of why this matters
Flex your PECs
Point
Explanation of why this matters
Context
Explanations of why this matters
This is useful because …
This is a problem because …
Even if… it is still possible

28. Flex your PECs Point Context Explanation of why this matters
Words that are unique to this situation and could not easily be used elsewhere. TV
Verbal ability

29. Recap the strengths and weaknesses of the 4 main research methods used in Psychology

31. Exit Question: Roll the Dice
Name the 4 types of research method in Psychology (C.O.S.E.)
Name the 2 main types of self-report (Q & I)
A strength of using a experiment to study behaviour
A strength of using an observation to study behaviour
A strength of using a self-report to study behaviour
A strength of using a correlation to study behaviour