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Research Methods in Psychology

Do teachers teach you the research methods in context or by itself? Do they do practical work with you at your school?
For me, I have 2 teachers. One does only research methods and approaches etc.. and the other one does social influence, attachment etc.. My teacher just teaches us the research method such as types of experiments, hypothesis, Extraneous variables & confounding variables on its own. My teacher doesn't really link it to the other topics on psychology like social influence. He does sometimes ask what type of experiment was in Asch's study to help us understand but there isn't really a context unless there are case studies or experiements (pavlov dog experiment)
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Original post by Aniksha_629
For me, I have 2 teachers. One does only research methods and approaches etc.. and the other one does social influence, attachment etc.. My teacher just teaches us the research method such as types of experiments, hypothesis, Extraneous variables & confounding variables on its own. My teacher doesn't really link it to the other topics on psychology like social influence. He does sometimes ask what type of experiment was in Asch's study to help us understand but there isn't really a context unless there are case studies or experiements (pavlov dog experiment)

Thank Aniksha!! :smile:

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