Your Psychology Project Handbook: Becoming a Researcher

Your Psychology Project Handbook is a comprehensive guide to completing your psychology research project or dissertation. The text is organised to reflect the natural progression through the project process, from developing your initial idea, managing your supervisor and ethical issues, through carrying out the research, to writing it up. This book will provide you with all the support you need to conduct your qualitative or quantitative independent projects, and will give you the confidence to achieve a successful result. A range of pedagogical tools are used throughout to enable you to consolidate your understanding of the process and anticipate . Common confusions, real student experiences and frequently asked questions that may arise during each stage of the process are addressed throughout. This books provides the guidance and practical advice to help you to `add value' and improve your marks for this essential part of your degree. The accompanying website offers downloadable forms, templates, worksheets and checklists to help you save time in planning and carrying out your project work.. Features * Introduction Boxes: present each chapter and introduce the learning outcomes for each chapter * `Common Confusions' boxes: explain common terminology * `Urban Myths' inserts: dispels commonly held incorrect beliefs about completing dissertations * `Maximizing Marks' boxes: offers keen students additional advice on more sophisticated ideas or techniques to consider at various stages in order to add value to their project work. These will often require students to engage in further reading, and/or discussion with their supervisor. * `Top Tip' inserts: present short practical notes on how to achieve the best outcomes. * Summary Boxes: pull together the key teaching points covered by each chapter * Annotated Further Reading lists: direct students to appropriate further information and indicate to them the nature and level of those texts.