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Informationen zum Autor Mark Forshaw is Director of Endpoint Development and Outcomes Assessment at Adelphi Values, UK, having previously been a Principal Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Centre for Health Psychology at Staffordshire University. He is Chair of the BPS Membership Standards Board, and a Trustee of the BPS, and the winner of the BPS Division of Health Psychology Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Advancement of Health Psychology 2011. He is the author of many books, including Critical Thinking for Psychology: A Student Guide (Wiley, 2012) . Klappentext Your Undergraduate Psychology Project: A Student Guide has been designed with the needs of the student in mind. Packed with hints and tips, and written in a simple, informal style, this 'second supervisor' is designed to ease students further into the world of research.The second edition has been completely revised and updated with new material on focus groups and ethics and a new section entitled How to Lose Marks Instantly. Zusammenfassung Your Undergraduate Psychology Project: A Student Guide has been designed with the needs of the student in mind. Packed with hints and tips, and written in a simple, informal style, this second supervisor is designed to ease students further into the world of research. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface xi Acknowledgements xiii 1. Planning Research 1 Choosing a Research Topic 1 The textbook method 2 The television method 3 The pub chat or coffee bar method 4 The internet method 5 The lecturer method 5 Think again! 5 Self-interest 6 Replication versus Novelty 7 Pure versus Applied Research 8 Researching the Project: Finding Literature 9 Using internet search engines 10 Snowballing and searching via citations 10 Using electronic databases 12 Boolean operators 12 Narrowing searches 13 How many references? 15 Statistics on the internet 16 Choosing a Method 16 Single-case designs 17 Case studies 17 Choosing qualitative methods 18 Differences or relationships? 21 Primary or secondary data? 22 Observational methods 23 Protocol analysis 24 Multiple methods 25 Control Groups 25 Matching Methods to Analysis 26 Power Analysis 27 To Pilot or Not to Pilot 28 Developing Materials 29 Experimental stimuli 29 Questionnaires 31 Looking professional 35 Interviews 36 Cross-cultural studies and translation of materials 39 'Borrowing' Materials 40 The Internet as a Research Tool 40 Managing Time: Keeping on Track 42 Start early 42 Match the project to the time available 42 Overplanning 43 Plan B 43 Response rates 45 Your supervisor's time 46 Project milestones 46 Tips on managing time 47 Writing a Proposal 51 Research Ethics 52 Informed consent 53 Undue pressure 55 Deception 55 Protection of participants from harm and 'acceptable' risk 55 Incentives 56 Withdrawal 56 Confidentiality 56 Debriefing 57 Personal safety 57 Obtaining Ethical Clearance 58 Getting Started 59 2. Doing Research: Collecting Data 61 Student-Supervisor Relations 62 Pilot Studies 65 Dealing with People 66 Being an ambassador 67 Working with participants 70 When participants don't understand or make mistakes 75 Conducting Interviews: The Practicalities 76 Focus Groups 77 Observational Studies 78 Relying on Equipment 81 Making Back-ups 81 Adjusting Your Project Milestones 82 Taking Part Yourself 82 Revisiting Data 83 Transcribing Interviews 84 <...
