ARRIVAL ACTIVITY: Using the words from the cue card on your desks try to develop a definition of The Experimental Method

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1 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. Topic 01 Experimental Methods & Aims

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3 Mrs Pepper Mrs Woodford Research Methods Approaches BioPsychology Psychopathology Memory Social Influence Attachment + One lesson a fortnight of independent guided study

4 Phones and IPods! Not seen unless told you can, and absolutely not on charge!

5 No food, hot drinks, or fizzy drinks, only water PRACTISE makes PROGRESS not PERFECT!

6 Be on time! And start working Any lateness means you have to come in through T1 & sign the late sheet with your reason. PRACTISE makes PROGRESS not PERFECT!

7 Attend If you are genuinely sick you catch up in your own time! Thursday afterschool

8 Done on time every time! So plan ahead, and is you need help get it from me or others. Thursday afterschool

9 Utilise the resources given to you for wordpress.com PRACTISE makes PROGRESS not PERFECT!

10 Participate! That means talk, ask questions, answer questions, do the tasks set, work together

11 Growth No-one is perfect first time and things will get hard. These two years a process! Keep going

12 Lies Don't! Ever!

13 5 th September 2016 Experimental Method & Aims Paper 2 Topic One 1/3 June Exam Topic 01 Experimental Methods & Aims

14 Creating Evaluating Analysing Applying Understanding Remembering To KNOW and UNDERSTAND what the definition of the experimental method is in Psychology. To KNOW and UNDERSTAND what 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.

15 Manipulating Changes Another Control Causes Changes Ideas on your definitions using key terms Variable Variable Hypothesis

16 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

17 Research Aim A general statement about what the researcher intends to investigate; the purpose of the study.

18 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)

19 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. PRACTISE makes PROGRESS not PERFECT!

20 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 spellchecking 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)

21 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. PRACTISE makes PROGRESS not PERFECT!

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