What are the origins of the Rorschach test and how does it work? Explore the inkblot tool psychologists use to test a subject’s perceptions and mental health. -- For nearly a century, ten inkblots have been used as an almost mystical...

In 2011, a scandal broke in psychology that made everyone question whether any of its research could really be believed. For the last decade, psychology has grappled with the aftermath and has tried to understand what went wrong. The...

In natural experiments circumstances present researchers with the perfect opportunity to test the effect of one variable on another in ways that just couldn't be done in a laboratory. This film looks at some natural experiments in...

When Elizabeth Loftus gave evidence for the defence in the trail of George Franklin, it was held by the court that while memories were unreliable and could be altered through questioning, they could not be invented. There were no such...

This film shows the importance and limitations of reductionism in the nature of psychological explanation. using the example of research into obesity. It cautions students against simply using reductionism as a critique to be compared...

This film uses the tragic example of 'Genie', who was kept in solitary confinement from infancy until she was 13, to illustrate the use of case studies in psychology: why they are used, how they are used, what they can offer researchers,...

If you go and see your doctor or a therapist, you’ll become a ‘case’ to them. They’ll want to know a lot more about you. Similarly, sociological case studies involve putting a social group, an event or a place ‘under the microscope’....

Some research questions in psychology involve seeing how people actually behave in real life situations. This is called naturalistic observation. Using psychological studies, this film illustrates different techniques of naturalistic...

This film uses a range of classic studies (Hofling, Piliavin, Fisher and Geiselman todefine and explain how and why psychologists use field experiments.

Self-report methods gather data directly from the participants. Here, we illustrate and compare questionnaire and interview methods, then look at some of the problems and limitations common to all self-report methods and how they may be...

How do natural experiments differ from Field or Laboratory experiments? Are there different types and what does this research method give to psychologists that other methods don't? This film examines these questions in the context of...

Sampling is crucial in psychology but it can be difficult for students new to psychology to understand. This film offers a helping hand. It begins with a series of visual images taking students through target population, sample,...

This film, illustrated by the case of Susan ""Genie"" Wiley, offers a brief history of case study research and examines the strengths and limitations of the research method.

""Using examples drawn from contemporary studies (Rosenhan, Hartup, LaFrance and Mayo) this film outlines and examines different types of naturalistic observation.

Based on a real-world example - how to collect data about education - this film illustrates and explains how and why psychologists use self-report methods such as questionnaires and interviews.

This film uses a range of classic studies to explore the strengths and limitations of laboratory experiments as a research method.

Understanding research methods isn’t easy for many students and a lot of them also find it boring.
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Based around the example of media and violence, this film examines the difference between correlation and causation.

This film opens with Milgram's famous obedience experiments and the part they played in producing much stricter ethical guidelines for the protection of participants. The second part of the film looks at an on-going research project to...

How do school students negotiate the pressures to perform well academically alongside the pressure to popular and cool? Carolyn Jackson combined questionnaires and interviews to research this question and this film uses her study, Lads...

In this short video, Dr Greg Martin discusses Case Control and Cohort studies. He compares the strengths of each study design and describes when each of them would be a preferred research method.

In this video, Dr Greg Martin describes how randomized control trials work and how they deal with confounding variables. This is episode three in a series of videos looking at epidemiology, research methods and study design in the...

Some research questions can only really be studied by sociologists getting out of their offices and interacting directly with the people they want to study. Starting with the famous Chicago School of sociology, this film looks at some...

Correlations are relationships & this film shows how those relationships are measured with correlation coefficients and illustrates the uses of correlations, their limitations and how often and how easily they can be misused.