PSY 290A- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 72 pages long!)

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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.