Homework 1/29

Homework 1/29

Yesterday I had my first interview with my psych 301 lab TA, asking her a series of questions about her job and the nature of the writing that occurs in her line of work. She was very helpful in answering all of my questions about experimental psychology write ups and how writing plays a role in therapeutic psychology as well as experimental psychology. To summarize my findings, she basically stated that all lab work has to be completed with a write up including the analyzation of data and facts that prove that a hypothesis, or theory, was proven or disproven. One of the biggest papers she had to write as a graduate student was her honors thesis paper, which was her own experimental lab work and her own theories that she tested on her own and explained through her paper whether they were proven or disproven. Other than experimental psychology, writing can be included in theraputic and clinical psychology by the notes often taken during therapy sessions. Those notes are usually then transcribed onto a laptop and put into a patients folder for further review. The purpose of this would be incase something were to go wrong mentally with the patient, anyone can have access to the "records" or formal write ups that the psychologist has done for his or her patient.

Analysis of 3 other sources

3 other sources I have found are all academic write ups that I have found on the university site discussing experimental data and findings within the field of experimental psychology. Going along with the interview, I can follow along these write ups and see specifically what needs t be included in essays written in psychology about experiments that have taken place. In honors and graduate thesis papers, many people start off by describing exactly what they are researching and coming up with what they plan to prove or discover by conducting this research, whether it be through random sampling or people watching. It then discusses the answers or behaviors of the people being observed, and concludes what exactly each behavior or answer means to them through analyzation of data and critical thinking. Psychology write ups are proven to be one of the most revised and revisited works in any field of writing, do to the fact that human behavior and ideas are constantly being revisited and changed when usual behavior comes to different outcomes than expected.