Experimental Participation Requirements
As part of our psychology degree at UoL we’re required to participate in a variety of experiments usually conducted by 3rd year students as part of their dissertations – otherwise known as EPR. Each term we need to achieve a set number of points in order to achieve 5% of our module marks, so I thought I’d […]
Dissertation update
So, I’ve been sitting here doing not all that much really, thinking I’ve got ages until exam- heck, my exam timetable hasn’t even been released yet– when it suddenly dawned on me that I couldn’t remember the last time I looked at my dissertation. Oops. My dissertation is only 6000 words, which is around […]
Paid Psychology Experiments This Week
When I came back to Leicester to work, my goal was to earn as much money as I physically could over these two weeks. So, in addition to working as Graduation staff and as Ambassador during two Open Days, I also signed up for some paid psychology experiments! During term time we have always been […]
Psychologists love electric shocks
The use (and pretend use) of electric shocks in psychological experiments has a long and disturbing pedigree. Perhaps the most infamous (pretend) use of electric shocks are Stanley Milgram’s experiments, which are popularly believed to demonstrate that people will obey orders no matter how inhuman they appear to be. However, closer inspection of his results […]
Child Forensic Psychology- Second optional module
So I wish I could write about all the optional modules but unfortunately I only take two this term. Child forensic psychology looks mostly at children’s development of memory and how this affects their ability to be reliable eyewitnesses. We can test infant memory through methods such as object search, which is related to object […]
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