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Research Methods
PEARSON EDEXCEL A Level Psychology

This is a full and comprehensive 94-page student booklets that draws together EVERY research method from across all the topics in Psychology.

I give to students at the start of Year 12, which they use to make summary tables, mind maps and so on.

The purpose is a ‘one-stop’ methods source. Students use this throughout Y12 and their ‘go-to’ for revision in Y13, particularly with Paper 3 where they use this booklet to support evaluations of unseen studies as practice for Paper 3.

I don’t ‘teach’ from this as I embed the methods into each topic, it is an editable word document, you can very easily covert sections to activities, gapped spaces, create a lesson from the content. It is quite flexible in what you can use this for and how you prefer to do that.

Methodological concepts covered, with example research studies from topics wherever possible, are:

Scientific status of psychology

Practical issues in research

Ethical considerations of research

Experimental methodology

Case study methodology

Self-reported data methodology

Brain scanning techniques

Twin and adoption study as a methodology

Correlational methodology

Observational methodology

Content analysis methodology

Thematic analysis methodology

Grounded theory

Animal research methodology

Longitudinal methodology

Cross-sectional methodology

Cross-cultural methodology

Meta-analysis methodology