TY - BOOK AU - Stevenson, Andrew TI - Studing psychology SN - 9780230517820 U1 - 150 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Psychology -- Study and teaching N1 - 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 ER -