BPS Manual of Psychology Practicals

This manual contains 15 carefully tested practical exercises designed to encourage students to explore the different methods of psychological investigation. All exercises can be carried out with minimum equipment and students are also able to replicate and modify exercises for themselves.

Rob McIlveen is a Senior Coursework Moderator and examiner for schools psychology, with many years' teaching experience. He is a teacher at Springwood High School, King's Lynn.

Louise Higgins has taught psychology at all levels from school to university. She is Head of Psychology at Chester College and a former Chair of the Association for the Teaching of Psychology.

Alison Wadeley has long experience as an examiner at A-level and is presently Chief Coursework Moderator. She is a Senior Lecturer at Filton College, Bristol.

Paul Humphreys is Chief Examiner and Senior Coursework Moderator for A-level Psychology. He is Senior Lecturer at Worcester College of Higher Education and a member of the BPS working party on the interrelation between A-level and degree psychology.

The Experimental Method
Preface to the Experimental Method
Experimenter Bias Effects: unintentional versus intentional factors
Data Gathering for Parapsychological Research
Hand preference and Hand Skill
Estimating I.Q.
Evaluating a Technique to Aid the Learning of People's Names The Observational Method
Preface to the Observational Method
Sex Role Stereotyping in British Television
An Investigation of Attributional Bias in a Real World Setting
An Investigation of Attributional Bias in a Real World Setting
Observational Studies of Pedestrian Behaviour
A Survey of Conservatism
Gender Differences in the Aggressive Behaviour of Schoolchildren The Correlational Method
Preface to the Correlational Method
The Basis of People's Fear of Animals
Assessing the Relationship between Adults' Attitudes towards Mental Health
Liking for, and Familiarity with, Male Forenames: A Partial Replication of Colman, Hargreaves and Sluckin
Locus of Control and Stress: An Investigation into the Relationship between Perceptions of Controllability of Events and Levels of Reported Stress
Approaches to Study and Academic Performance
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BPS Manual of Psychology Practicals Experiment, Observation and Correlation

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