Practical assignment

Today we're going to start thinking about the final psychology assignment, which we'll complete after easter. You will need to plan and carry out a psychological test, and discuss the results. Answer the following in your books to get you started:

1. What are four common types of psychological investigations? Explain how a self report works:
2. Take this stress test. What is good and bad about it?
3. Try this quiz to assess your happiness. Do you prefer this quiz to the first one? Why?
4. Finally, try one of these quizzes. How could these types of questions cross ethical boundaries?
5. Give some advantages and disadvantages of quizzes like these:
6. Read the information here. What specific factors would you be interested in studying with your experiment?                                                                                                          
7. For your experiment, try and come up with a title - e.g. 'the effect of diet on happiness'.
8. What might be some valid questions you could ask in this study?
9. How could you try and make the results from the test more reliable?