arrival activity: using the words from the cue...
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Topic 01 – Experimental Methods & Aims
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ARRIVAL ACTIVITY: Using the words from the cue card on your desks try to develop a definition
of “The Experimental Method”
Work in tables, write your answer on a post-it.
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Mrs Woodford
•Memory
• Social Influence
• Attachment
Mrs Pepper
• Research Methods
• Approaches
• BioPsychology
• Psychopathology
+ One lesson a fortnight of
independent guided study
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Phones and IPods!
Not seen unless told
you can, and
absolutely not on
charge!
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No food, hot drinks,
or fizzy drinks,
only water
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Be on time!
And start working…
Any lateness means you have
to come in through T1 & sign the late
sheet with your reason.
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Attend
If you are genuinely sick you
catch up in your own
time!
Thursday afterschool
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Done on time every time!
So plan ahead, and is you need help get it from
me or others. Thursday
afterschool
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Utilise the resources given to you for help
• Showmyhomework
• @psychopepper
• @luttpsych
• www.psychopepper.wordpress.com
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Participate!
That means talk, ask
questions, answer
questions, do the tasks
set, work together
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Growth
No-one is perfect first
time and things will get hard. These two years a
process! Keep going…
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Lies
Don't!
Ever!
Topic 01 – Experimental Methods & Aims
PRACTISE makes PROGRESS not PERFECT!03/09/2016Lesson 02: IVs and DVs
5th September 2016
ExperimentalMethod & Aims
Paper 2
Topic One
1/3 June Exam
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Creating
Evaluating
Analysing
Applying
Understanding
Remembering
To KNOW and UNDERSTANDwhat the definition of the experimental method is in Psychology.
To KNOW and UNDERSTANDwhat the definition of a research aim is.
To APPLY knowledge of aims to past exam questions
To CREATE a grass-head for use throughout the research methods booklet.
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Ideas on your definitions
using key terms
Manipulating
Variable
Changes
Changes
Causes
Another
Variable
Control
Hypothesis
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The Experimental
Method
The “Experimental Method” involves manipulating one
variable to determine if these changes cause changes in
another variable. This method relies on high levels
of control to test a hypothesis
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Research AimA general statement about
what the researcher intends to investigate; the purpose of
the study.
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• A1) Dave, a middle-aged male researcher, approached an adult in a busy street. He asked the adult for directions to the train station. He repeated this with 29 other adults. Each of the 30 adults was then approached by a second researcher, called Sam, who showed each of them 10 photographs of different middle-aged men, including a photograph of Dave. Sam asked the 30 adults to choose the photograph of the person who had asked them for directions to the train station. Sam estimated the age of each of the 30 adults and recorded whether each one had correctly chosen the photograph of Dave.
• Identify one aim of this experiment. (2 marks)
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• One aim of the investigation is to see if the age of participants affects their ability to identify a person. (Credit relevant alternatives)
• 1 mark for a very brief or muddled aim eg to investigate whether participants can identify a man in a photograph or to investigate memory.
• For 2 marks the aim must be more detailed eg to investigate the effect that age has on participants ability to identify a man from a photo line up.
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• A2) It is thought that colours might affect our performance when carrying out certain tasks. Research in this area has been inconclusive. Some studies have shown that red improves performance but others have found the opposite. It could be that these contradictory results have arisen because red is beneficial only for certain kinds of mental processing. Some psychologists tested this hypothesis in a series of independent-groups design experiments using students at a Canadian university. The experiments involved computer tasks, with either a red, blue or neutral background appearing on the monitor. The researchers found that participants were better at a word-recall task and a spell-checking task when the screen background was red rather than blue or neutral. However, participants thought of more creative ideas when the screen was blue rather than red or neutral. The researchers concluded that red is beneficial for tasks that require attention to detail whereas blue aids creativity.
• What were the researchers’ aims in this study? (2 marks)
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• AO2/AO3 = 2 marks
• They wanted to clarify some of the issues raised by previous research where some studies had shown that red facilitated tasks and other studies had shown the opposite. They believed that one way to reconcile these different findings was to look at particular cognitive tasks eg ones which required attention to detail and to compare them with tasks which tap into very different skills eg creativity and thus to narrow down the benefits of providing red backgrounds.
• One mark for a brief answer eg 'they wanted to investigate the effects of colour on performance.'
• One further mark for elaboration, in relation to colour and / or performance.