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Aqa psychology year 2 activity cara flanagan, jo haycock, mark jones, ruth jones © illuminate publishing 2016, chapter 3: research methods, case studies and content analysis, analyse that personal statement.
Questions 1. Look through the opening paragraphs above and construct a list of things that people include in this paragraph, you can include the type of language or sentences as well as the actual content, e. experiences. 2. Working in a pair, construct a list of behavioural categories (aim for around 4–6) that you can use to compare these statements. 3. Analyse each example in terms of these categories by adding a tick each time that category is present in an example. 4. Transfer this data to a bar chart. 5. What conclusions can Beth draw about opening paragraph content? 6. Beth thinks that she now knows exactly what is required for a perfect Psychology personal statement but her Psychology teacher urges caution. Explain why this might not tell her what is the best content.
Last year I was unfortunately involved in quite a serious car accident. What amazed me was that as I sat among the wreckage, not one person stopped to help me. Didn’t anyone care at all about another human being? Studying psychology meant I could answer this – I realised I knew the answer. At that moment I thought – if I know this after just studying it for a few months what could I learn from a degree in the subject. Despite my injuries, I was excited and knew that psychology was for me, not just as a degree but as a career.
Sometimes it seems like I have wanted to study psychology forever! The way people behave and why they do certain things has always fascinated me. I am really glad I chose the subject at A level because it has been my favourite. I really want to learn more now and study psychology at university and even have a career in it.
It was the odd behavioural traits displayed by my uncle, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder that really sparked my interest in psychology. What was it that caused him to one day be a sparkling, witty person running around and playing silly games with me and then the next time I saw him, a hunched over isolated person that could not bear to make eye contact? Psychology has the answer to this and many other everyday questions so I want to study it to find out the answers so that I can have a career that is focused on helping people like my uncle.
What motivates humans to behave like we do? Is it all about external factors or perhaps it is down to internal factors? This is one of the key questions in psychology and one that I hope to answer. Psychology has already told us lots about important topics such as the causes and treatment of mental illnesses but the beauty of the subject overall is the fact that it can literally be applied to everyday life. No longer do I want psychology to be just an interest of mine, but want it to be my career.
From an early age I have been intrigued by what makes humans tick and this interest has only been enhanced through my study of psychology. Although I have only been studying it for just over a year I have really enjoyed all the topics that we have covered at A level and feel that I have a solid grounding for university level study. I recognise that we can apply what has been learned in psychology to many aspects of life and as a subject it is just so ‘relevant’. That is what makes me sure I want to make this my career. What could be better than studying the human mind?
Beth has decided to study psychology at university and wants to ensure that her personal statement is the best it can be. She decides to do her own piece of research on what are the best things to include in a personal statement and turns to Google to help her. She knows that the fi rst few lines are vital and decides to try and find out what people generally include here. She finds some examples and selects fi ve that she thinks are good. Then she thinks it might be fun to run a content analysis on them. Read through the examples she has selected and then answer the questions below.
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Chapter 3: Research methods 64—65 Case studies and Content analysis Think of another case Activity type Idea The textbook uses the case study of HM to illustrate the strengths of the case study approach, e.g. to demonstrate the way that it might change our understanding or even our theories. Often students are so focused on the
Chapter 3: Research methods Case studies and content analysis 64–65 Analyse that personal statement! 3.2 Questions 1. Look through the opening paragraphs above and construct a list of things that people include in this paragraph, you can include the type of language or sentences as well as the actual content, e.g. experiences. 2.
Chapter 3: Research methods 64—65 Case studies and Content analysis Think of another case Activity type Idea The textbook uses the case study of HM to illustrate the strengths of the case study approach, e.g. to demonstrate the way that it might change our understanding or even our theories. Often students are so focused on the
Chapter 3: Research methods Case studies and content analysis 64– Analyse that personal statement! 3. Questions 1. Look through the opening paragraphs above and construct a list of things that people include in this paragraph, you can include the type of language or sentences as well as the actual content, e. experiences. 2.
-provide a detailed and in-depth analysis of an individual, group, institution or event-----case studies often involve the analysis of UNUSUAL individuals or events (eg: a person with a rare disorder or rare events) (rare events eg: the sequence of events that led up to the 2011 London Riots-----case studies sometimes can be involved with more ...
This chapter presents the method of this research. There is some sub-chapter dealing with research method such as: Research Design, Data and Data Source, Data Collection, Credibility and Dependability, and the last Data Analysis and Interpretation. A. Research Design The design of this research is library research by applying content analysis ...
3.3 The case study strategy It is recognised that not all case studies are interpretive. Case studies are normally associated with qualitative research, but can also be used as a method of inquiry employing a positivist epistemology and ontology. Yin (1994) warns against confusing case studies with qualitative methods using the ethnographic method.
Chapter III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY A. Research Design The researcher method in this research is a qualitative descriptive method as a case study. The writer chooses case study because a case study is research to identify an issue or a problem. In this context the issue or problem which is discussed about to investigate students
education research, as discussed in Chapter 2. A case study182 approach to the research has been adopted in this thesis. A single case study183 has been drawn upon, with the unit of analysis being the university’s management. The case study approach was regarded as relevant as the aim behind . .
procedures advocated for case study research (Merriam, 1998; Stake, 2000). In this study, procedures suggested by Creswell (2007, p. 74) for conducting a mixed methods case study were followed. To begin with, as researcher I had to decide whether a case study approach was appropriate for the research problem of the study.