OCR Psychology: AS Core Studies
by Philip Banyard
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Manufacturer: Psychology Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 150
EAN: 9781841697284
ISBN: 1841697281
Label: Psychology Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2008-05-20
Publisher: Psychology Press
Studio: Psychology Press
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Summary: Appalling from start to finish
Comment: This book is a complete mystery to me. Or rather how such a high profile publishing house, which specialises in psychology, would publish such an ill-conceived product is a mystery.
To start with, the layout is utterly appalling. No other word will do.
According to the back cover blurb, Beth Black of Long Road Sixth Form College is impressed by the book's "overwhelming visual appeal, logical arrangement, accuracy, psychological insight and inspiration..."
I don't think so.
Firstly, it is indeed visually "overwhelming." But appealing? No way. In fact it is a total mess.
For some unfathomable reason the contents are set out in "coloured," erratically arranged blocks of pale orange, dark (1960's) orange, white, mid-grey and black. Most of the text is in black, except where it is white on black or in mid-strength orange on pale orange or on mid-grey. Did anyone at the publishers stop to consider how difficult it would be for many people to read the text in those last two colour combinations? Presumably not!
It is also a complete mystery why the text is set out in coloured blocks, of differing proportions, at all. The practise presents the information in a totally fractured manner with no natural flow from one block to the next, and certainly nothing resembling "logical formating." Worse yet, this confusing layout also conceals the fact that the authors ask questions for which they have not provided any answer. Which wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the wealth of *irrelevant* material that IS included - like the totally uneven "biographical notes" - Elizabeth Loftus gets over half a page (page 6), Beatrix Gardner gets about one sixth of a page (page 31), and Jan Deragowski gets six lines in a tiny little box in the bottom right-hand corner of page 15!
Great idea for a textbook - not!
As an example of what's missing, on pages 33 and 75 the authors write (top left hand corner in both instances): "This study was a case study. What are the strengths and limitations of this research method in the context of this study?" But where have they provided such information? Even the larger box at the top of page 203 - "Case Studies" - fails to give even a fleeting indication of how to answer that question.
Moreover the whole of the material on Freud's case of Little Hans (pages 72-75) seems to be referred to as a "case history" rather than a "case study", until we get to the question on page 75. Does this mean that "case history" and "case study" are synonymous? Who knows? The book doesn't provide the necessary information.
Of course it might be an interesting topic for debate if we had a few hours to spare, and reaching an accurate conclusion didn't much matter. But students using this book have something like 20 weeks of term time in which to cover 20 so-called "core studies" before they take the three part AS exam.
As for accuracy, check out the table on page 22. Surely only a someone who was completely numerically illiterate could fail to notice that the numbers are arranged incorrectly?
In the next study, on the training of Washoe, the authors claim that the chimp produced "her own novel combinations such as 'open food drink' ([meaning] open the fridge)..."
Which wasn't, in fact, the case. Washoe actually signed "to open + to eat + to drink."
The difference may have seemed unimportant to these authors, but in terms of learning a language, the two versions of Washoe's communication were definitely significant.
Just my opinion, but I really think students deserve a textbook that adheres to far higher standards than this.
Customer Rating:
Summary: An excellent text for OCR psychology
Comment: This is the business: it picks out all the key points for each of the 20 core studies in terms of background, the study itself, evaluation questions and it has self-check questions too.
Learn what is in here and get an 'A' grade!
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