Your Undergraduate Psychology Project: A Student Guide has been designed with the needs of the student in mind. Packed with hints and tips, and written in a simple, informal style, this ‘second supervisor’ is designed to ease students further into the world of research.
The second edition has been completely revised and updated with new material on focus groups and ethics and a new section entitled How to Lose Marks Instantly
- Structured chronologically around planning a project, carrying it out, and then writing it up.
- Gives practical advice on how to deal with day-to-day problems such as software failures or uncommunicative interviewees.
- Written in consultation with a number of experienced academics and students of psychology.
 
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xiii
1. Planning Research 1
Choosing a Research Topic 1
The textbook method 2
The television method 3
The pub chat or coffee bar method 4
The internet method 5
The lecturer method 5
Think again! 5
Self-interest 6
Replication versus Novelty 7
Pure versus Applied Research 8
Researching the Project: Finding Literature 9
Using internet search engines 10
Snowballing and searching via citations 10
Using electronic databases 12
Boolean operators 12
Narrowing searches 13
How many references? 15
Statistics on the internet 16
Choosing a Method 16
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