PSY 290A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Review Article, Beck Depression Inventory, American Psychological Association

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 290A
• Professor: Sarah Cook

Document Summary

Most students tend to see themselves as being consumers of research (rather than producers of research). For the first half of lesson 1, you will learn: Why the producer role is important: for coursework in psychology. Benefits of being a good consumer: for example, you are expected to write in apa (american psychological. Association) style in most psychology courses: for graduate school. Think about sources in terms of their reliability and trustworthiness. Bei(cid:374)g a sa(cid:448)(cid:448)(cid:455) consumer of research will help you distinguish good research from bad research: for your future career, many students go on to have careers where being a knowledgeable consumer of research is important. What do you gain by being a critical consumer of information: the text uses the example of facilitated communication (fc) to illustrate why it is important to be a critical consumer of research. Psychological scientists use empirical investigations to test theories and tackle both basic and applied problems.