Excelling Psychology

I, Jyotika Varmani, tutor students of Psychology at all levels. I reside in Mumbai and tutor students online. You can contact me personally on my e-mail id jyotikapsychology@gmail.com or call/message me on 9892507784 for enquiries. --- AS and A-level studies are to be prepared with respect to their descriptions, the issues and debates they involve and the description and evaluation of the research method they adopt. As concerns the last type of preparation, I have had a number of queries by students which have all suggested to me that they simply do not engage in this type of preparation explicitly. That is, students assume that preparing for the description of studies with the syllabus guidelines will automatically prepare them to describe and evaluate the research methods employed in the studies. This is not the truth and in order to show how far taken away this notion is from reality, in this post, I use a part of the study by Laney et.al. to illustrate how a description and evalu...

I, Jyotika Varmani, tutor students of Psychology at all levels. I reside in Mumbai and tutor students online. You can contact me personally on my e-mail id jyotikapsychology@gmail.com or call/message me on 9892507784 for enquiries. --- The myriads of questions that students pose to their tutors are more than satisfying for them, for they reflect students' curiosity and their desire for knowledge. Among these countless questions that are impossible to keep track of, are a few that the tutor cannot help but notice as being distinctive, for they come to her so often that they enter her personal collection of FAQs that she then anticipates and incorporates into her lessons. My own lessons have benefited from quite a few such questions themselves and in this series, I present a selection of those questions and answers that have made their way into my personal repository of tutoring. In this first post of the FAQ series, I address a query on psychological research, full of misconceptio...

I, Jyotika Varmani, tutor students of Psychology at all levels. I reside in Mumbai and tutor students online. You can contact me personally on my e-mail id jyotikapsychology@gmail.com or call/message me on 9892507784 for enquiries. --- Papers 2 and 4 of A-level psychology present questions for students to design studies. In the present lesson, I discuss in detail the design of a specific type of study - that of an interview. Please note, this lesson is not intended to explain or discuss the interview method of research - I assume that you are fully familiar with the method before you undertake this lesson.  The following outline covers all aspects of an interview that students must consider and plan for while designing a study involving the use of the same: Every interview has a minimum of one interviewer and a minimum of one interviewee. While designing an interview, it is important to describe both (or more) of these parties in detail with characteristics of each that are re...