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2.3 Formal teaching The teaching co
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TOMtip Seminars ❖ If you do not u
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ORGANIZING INPUTS 47 you to cope wi
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student makes an appointment or jus
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• making friends • motivation
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Figure 2.10. Observation sheet (aft
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are quite rare in psychology course
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Is one form of work experience more
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Stages in the personal development
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Exercise 2.7 What do I hope to gain
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3 Using IT 3.1 Using learning resou
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Tip: Monitoring a changing world
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➢ Training for the European Compu
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USING IT 77 • How far from the un
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need to use the university’s mach
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established the Autism Research Cen
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ack-up file, onto which you put the
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4 Achieving good outputs 4.1 The pu
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Formative assessment Formative work
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ecommended reading to give you an o
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Tip: Illustrating your essay ➢ Yo
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Never be tempted to make a scissors
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TOMtip ❖ The assignment marking s
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You will see that there are two mai
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Of course this is a recipe for curi
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Decide on: • the most suitable vi
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speakers have tricks for avoiding d
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4.7 Taking examinations If you do n
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Exam formats Make sure you know wel
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It is an awful truth that you canno
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hope of gaining a few marks - but a
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facts that come to mind. The examin
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5 Research projects and dissertatio
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RESEARCH PROJECTS AND DISSERTATIONS
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5.6 Running the project RESEARCH PR
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Some advice from students on writin
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RESEARCH PROJECTS AND DISSERTATIONS
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6 What next? 6.1 Introduction 6.2 I
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WHAT NEXT? 167 Figure 6.1. The firs
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Appendix 1 How to reference your wo
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section of this book. It would be a
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In the reference section The requir
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APPENDIX 1 183 In summarizing the l
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APPENDIX 3 187 LGN Lateral Genicula
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APPENDIX 4 189 Bias See Demand char
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APPENDIX 4 191 Displacement Activit
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APPENDIX 4 197 which occur simply b
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APPENDIX 4 199 the apparent link be
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Appendix 5 Common terms (and some o
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Contingency table Continuous descri
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APPENDIX 5 205 Effect size An effec
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Appendix 6 Further reading Here are
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Planning ahead Lanz, C., Moysey, L.
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REFERENCES 215 Gilovich, T., Medvec
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Index Terms defined in the Glossary
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Data collecting, 139-141 displaying
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Lambert Review, 175 Laptops see Com
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Retrograde amnesia, 198 Reviews, 36
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