What Have I Learnt? This week I will be discussing what I have learnt throughout this module. What I have learnt about psychology and education? There are uses for things that I never considered to be important within education. Lectures are not good for engagement. In general lectures are not great for learning. What I have learnt from this module? Groups, leadership and men.

A statistical based blog for statistical based brains.

PLP-3003 Module, Year 3. Last set of Blog comments! March 19, 2012.

Can correlation show causality? March 11, 2012. Although correlation and causality sound similar, they are in fact very different things, and not intrinsically linked. The basic principals can be summarised in five main points.

Psychology and the necessary relationship with statistics. Although this measure of reliability is mainly used in the field of psychology, it is also used in the social sciences, nursing and business sectors.

Mystical musings of a Psychology student. Do we use less of our ow.

In psychology, one of the many ethical controls put in place is called informed consent, this means that before participants can take part in research they have to provide their consent. Informed consent is a useful tool as it also allows us to see which studies are contentious in nature as participants will refuse consent to studies they believe are overly harmful which can also be used to test our own ethical procedures and controls.