Study Skills for Psychology Students

Introduction: why you need this handbook and how to use it<br><br>1 First things first <br>1.1 About psychology <br>1.2 How your university or college works <br><br>2 Organizing inputs <br>2.1 What kind of student are you? <br>2.2 Structuring information <br>2.3 Formal teaching <br>2.4 Learning in groups <br>2.5 Learning through experience <br>2.6 Personal development profiling <br><br>3 Using IT <br>3.1 Using learning resource centres <br>3.2 Using in-house electronic resources <br>3.3 Surfing the web and evaluating what you find <br>3.4 Saving information effectively <br>3.5 Plagiarism detection software <br><br>4 Achieving good outputs <br>4.1 The purposes of assessment <br>4.2 Writing essays <br>4.3 Writing practical reports <br>4.4 Giving presentations (or how to avoid death by PowerPoint) <br>4.5 Preparing and presenting posters <br>4.6 Contributing to seminars <br>4.7 Taking examinations <br>4.8 Overall thoughts on assessment <br><br>5 Research projects and dissertations <br>5.1 Planning your timetable <br>5.2 Choosing a topic <br>5.3 Making the most of your supervisor <br>5.4 Designing the project <br>5.5 Getting ethical approval <br>5.6 Running the project <br>5.7 Reporting and analysing your results <br>5.8 Common errors of interpretation <br>5.9 Writing up<br> <br>6 What next? <br>6.1 Introduction <br>6.2 Ideas about careers in general <br>6.3 Regulation <br>6.4 Careers in psychology <br>6.5 Postgraduate courses <br>6.6 Working and training abroad <br>6.7 Other careers <br>6.8 Longer term <br><br>Appendices<br>1 How to reference your work <br>2 Answers to exercises <br>3 Acronyms and abbreviations <br>4 Glossary <br>5 Common terms (and some of their alternatives) used instatistics <br>6 Further reading