ERA - Psychology & Pseudo - Sciences

Session 11 - ERA: Framework & Structure


Open up with Tim Minchin's 'Storm' and discuss the main ideas concerning Science and Faith - more specifically the debunking of pseudo-sciences...


Move onto ERA PowerPoint presentation and run through the main points with the class and relate it to the current class study on pseudo-sciences.


Time permitting - students are to begin drafting the Introduction for their ERA write up.




Session 12 - ERA: Write Up


Begin with handing out the ERA template and the class results - explain in detail how the results were gained and tabled.


Move onto the Discussion section of the report and include go over the concept of extraneous variables (unwanted variables) and how they relate to the reliability and validity of the data.


Allow the remaining time for students to write up their Introduction, Method and the Results sections of their ERA.


More points concerning the Discussion will be covered next session.