PSY-40095 - Module Specification
School of Psychology
Faculty of Natural Sciences

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

Available as a Free Standing Elective

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25

Through hands-on workshops and interactive sessions you will develop your knowledge and skills in psychological research. You will gain a broad appreciation of the different research approaches in psychology research and be guided in developing research designs from research questions, giving you the independence necessary to plan, conduct and analyse your own research in the rest of the MSc. You will draw on all this to undertake the assessment, in which you will write a structured psychology lab report, using APA formatting.

This module provides training for students around advanced research skills, design, and analysis. It aims to provide students with advanced research skills and familiarity with a breadth of research designs in psychology, so that they can progress through the rest of the programme being able to set their work in wider context. It includes new skills and methods not typically covered at undergraduate level (e.g. open science, communication, ethnography) as well as equipping students with advanced research skills such as critical literature reviewing, generating a suitable research question, identifying a suitable method, data analysis, and managing the research process.

Intended Learning Outcomes

apply methodological skills in psychology to pose and answer different types of research questions, in different contexts: 1
apply their research skills in design and analysis to psychological research processes: 1
produce a psychological lab report in APA format: 1

Study hours

50 hours of synchronous class time
16 hours of asynchronous activities, including materials on ethics, basic statistics, survey methods and basic qualitative methods in psychology
14 hours of independent reading based on the analyses covered in taught sessions
70 hours on the summative assignment including reading, writing the literature review, data analysis, and writing the lab report in full.

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment