Science aid: Psychologcal Methods and Approaches

Welcome to Methods and Approaches in Psychology

In this area of the site we use the biological approach to answer some key question: nature or nurture? mind or body? and get practical by looking at how a piece of to plan, implement and represent a piece of reasearch:

Nature vs Nurture	Evolution of intelligence, twin studies, adoption studies, selective breeding, rubber band hypothesis.
Ethics	Look at the ethical guidelines relating to research in Psychology as laid down by the BPS.
Planning Research	What is an aim and hypothesis? Methods of sampling with advantages and disadvantages.
Methods	Lab experiments, observations and questionnaires, their pros and cons.
Representing Data	Simple guide to tables, graphs averages and standard deviation.
Mind and Body	The nervous system, fight or flight response, localisation of cortical function, methods of investigating the brain.