Studing psychology / Andrew Stevenson

1 Learning the Language of Psychology
Ideas and activities to help you cope with terminology
Proof, theories, hypotheses and the scientific method
Causal links, controlled experiments and correlation
Right or wrong: the perspectives in psychology
2 Studying Psychology in Ways that Maxinuse your Learning Style
Learning styles: What's it all about?
The Wholist-Analyst theory
The Listening, Looking and Doing theory
3 Writing Psychology Assessments and Examination Answers
Typical psychology assessments
Reading the words in the question
Planning assessment answers
Writing in an academic style
Evaluating psychological research
Monitoring - and accelerating - your own progress
Preparing for - and passing - psychology exams
4 Conducting and Understanding Psychological Research
Deciding what to study
Research methods in psychology
Selecting participants for research
Treating participants ethically
Writing your research report
5 Using Statistics in Psychology
Two kinds of statistics
Using descriptive statistics in psychology
Using inferential statistics on psychology

6 What Can I Do with a Psychology Degree?
Geoffrey Beattie is watching you
The PhD route
The Chartered Psychologist route
Appendices
1 Tribe: a short history of a contentious word
2 Random number table
3 Z-scores table
4 Test of goodness of fit
5 Ranking sets of scores
6 The F-test
7 Sign test table
8 Chi-square test table
9 Wilcoxon test table
10 Mann-Whitney U-test table
11 t-test table
12 Pearson's product-moment table
13 Spearman's rho table