RESE1171 Exam Solution: Academic Skills for Psychology - UOG

This document presents a student's solution to an examination paper for the module RESE1171, Academic Skills for Psychology, at the University of Greenwich. The exam covers topics such as the benefits of participating in psychological research, the definition and avoidance of plagiarism, and the challenges involved in preparing and delivering oral presentations. The solutions provided discuss the positive perceptions and educational benefits of research participation for psychology students, explain the importance of academic integrity in avoiding plagiarism, and outline strategies for overcoming common presentation challenges, such as content selection and audience engagement. The document includes references to support the arguments and explanations presented.

Examination topic

Table of Contents
QUESTIONS...................................................................................................................................1
1: As a psychology student, what are the benefits of participating in psychological research?
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2: What is plagiarism, why is it important not to plagiarise, and how might plagiarism be
avoided?..................................................................................................................................2
3: Imagine that you have been asked to do an oral presentation on a topic of your choice.
What challenges might you face in preparing and delivering this presentation and how might
you overcome them?...............................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

QUESTIONS
1: As a psychology student, what are the benefits of participating in psychological research?
As a psychology student, the student used to show their perspective which is related with
the participation in the psychological studies and they are found that the student who had
participated in the least of one study which is reported positive perception of the research which
is stronger and used to create the understanding which is based on the research process and
procedure. It is also analysed that the undergraduate student is used to face the issue which they
can perceive their experience which is helpful in participating in the psychological studies which
is based on education, positive and beneficial to the psychology student. It is necessary to
understand with the help of example which used to show the interest which is enhanced after the
participating in research studies. In fact, 71 percent of the participant are used to report that they
learn more about the procedure and process by taking participation in the study that is compared
in order to take the classroom lecture. The stronger and appropriate understanding of research
question is based on the various factor which is used to state about the perception of student
while conducting and doing of research. The higher interest in the field of psychology compared
to the student who had not participated. Moreover, they also acknowledge that the cross-section
method design has their bounded on the ability of student and make causal connection between
the participation in the research studies and they have to show the positive outcomes (Bloch and
et. al., 2018).
Moreover, there are some of the benefits which is associated with the psychology student
when they used to take participation in the research process that include:
 To exercise one’s autonomy and they used to take an active role within the social group
and community.
 To contribute towards the advancement which is based on the social science which follow
the aspect which is residue the knowledge of psychology.
 In this, they take an active role in the one’s own healthcare which is optimised and briefly
elaborated.
 To help combat felling of helplessness and explore the adventure with the new vision and
standpoint which is related with the topic in term of psychology.
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 In this, it also develops vision and aspect to understand the thing which is associated with
the student condition, the process of research help to quantify the solution which may be
associated with the different type of issue or problem which is investigated within the
research.
 The people with the help of improving one’s own condition, the wellbeing or the quality
of life is usually developed (Hendriks and et. al., 2019).
2: What is plagiarism, why is it important not to plagiarise, and how might plagiarism be
avoided?
Plagiarism is defined as the presentation of another author language, thought and ideas or the
eventual expression which is based on their original work. In this, there are different set of
educational contexts which show their difference by definition of plagiarism that depend on the
institution. Moreover, the Plagiarism is used to considered set of violation of the academic
integrity and used to breach the focus on the journalistic ethics. Therefore, the plagiarism is used
to present someone else work or ideas, with or without their consent by incorporating it into the
work which is based on the full acknowledgement. Whereas, plagiarism which may be
intentional or the reckless or sometime they are unintentional (Herman and et. al., 2020). There
are some of the concepts which is associated with the plagiarism are:
 Someone turning the other work as their own which is also create the chance of
plagiarism.
 Copying of the word and ideas on the similar way which is really someone idea that is
copied by other is create the impact of plagiarism.
 Falling to put the quotation in the quotation marks.
 In this, they used to provide giving incorrect information about that is based on the
different source of the quotation.
 Changing in the word but copying of the sentence structure is also a source which is
without giving credit.
 Copying of the different word or the ideas from the source that make the majority of the
work is copied. Whether the credit is usually provided to the author with the help to in
text citation. In the number of cases the plagiarism is usually avoided by citing the source
and giving credit of the information and the data which is collected from the different
authors.
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Plagiarism is usually unethical because of the three reason which state that the unethical use of
other ideas and word of the other and used to pretend that the word and ideas is associated with
the own formulation. Therefore, the unethical because the plagiarise subsequently show the
benefits of theft which is remarkable and punishable. Try avoid the plagiarism because it is
unethical and sometime the penalty is also marks on the student for that misconduct (Jereb and
et. al., 2018).
3: Imagine that you have been asked to do an oral presentation on a topic of your choice. What
challenges might you face in preparing and delivering this presentation and how might you
overcome them?
Presentation it is quite difficult and challenging for the number of people when they used to
deliver for the first time. Presenting is an art that requires various practice and preparation.
Moreover, it usually needs a careful planning and design track in order to gather the tension of
the audience while operating or discussing about the topic with the help of presentation. While
initiating designing the presentation, it is very essential to prepare a pitch for the template that is
based on the initial progress. Moreover, there are some of the challenges which is usually arises
during the delivering of presentation. In this, the first one is selection of content for the slide
which is presented. In addition to this, the most of the presenter usually find their content in
order to present the simpler way to their audience. However, over the course of 45-minute
presentation there is a lot of content to remember while also maintaining and keeping the track of
the key points while representing the slides (MacIntyre and et. al., 2019).
The transformation of sentences and the simple keywords and icon are the things which is
required while delivering the presentation. Moreover, the audience can appropriate a clean and
simple visual as that support rather than competes with what the presentation is usually
discussing about. In this, the simple and appropriate content is reliable that reduce the challenges
that is associated with the requirement of slides. The second challenge within the presentation is
using of screenshot that must be clear and understandable. In addition to this, the less graphics
and dark shades are usually reduced in the aspect of presentation to make them impactful.
Therefore, try to simply choose a graphics that is relevant to what the presentation is used to
talking about in the layer of image are usually framed in the borders. The third challenge is
usually related with the making of data or information interesting within the presentation. There
are number of presentations which can become blur or hard to make the difference in order to
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overcome. These consequences try to create a comparison scale and start with the initial figures
and icon and insert number of dates along with the icon which make the data or the information
productive and clear from the vision of audience (Meo and et. al., 2019).
While taking the contrast of last challenges, while delivering of presentation is that the
segmentation of information in the digestible way. It is usually analysed that the presentation and
felt overwhelmed with the information slide after slide. So, it is essential to inspire the audience
with the too much information that can feel heavy and is going to be barrier to that particular
goal to overcome from such situation. There is a good idea to take a bit of space for reflection
and absorption and support the idea with the key statics and develop short sentences in the slide
and elaborate them in the confident way with the help of progression. Whereas, there are other
challenges which is also associated with the presentation is that boring of audience which can be
overcome by using interesting method such as include graphics, statistics, graph, image, and
many more. Moreover, also avoid jargons in the excessive manner because it creates the slides
more complicated and formulate hurdles while delivering a presentation in the front of
audiences. Make proper engagement towards the audience by asking their suggestion and reduce
on the different slide which is related with the concern of topic which is celebrated within the
presentation (Russell and et. al., 2020).
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Bloch and et. al., 2018. ECPR in a tertiary care hospital: Presentation of challenges on the basis
of a real case. Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care, 21, pp.27-32.
Hendriks and et. al., 2019. How WEIRD are positive psychology interventions? A bibliometric
analysis of randomized controlled trials on the science of well-being. The Journal of
Positive Psychology, 14(4), pp.489-501.
Herman and et. al., 2020. Colorectal cancer in northern Tanzania: increasing trends and late
presentation present major challenges. JCO global oncology, 6, pp.375-381.
Jereb and et. al., 2018. Gender differences and the awareness of plagiarism in higher
education. Social Psychology of Education, 21(2), pp.409-426.
MacIntyre and et. al., 2019. Setting an agenda for positive psychology in SLA: Theory, practice,
and research. The Modern Language Journal, 103(1), pp.262-274.
Meo and et. al., 2019. Turnitin: Is it a text matching or plagiarism detection tool?. Saudi journal
of anaesthesia, 13(Suppl 1), p.S48.
Russell and et. al., 2020. Annual Research Review: Ecological momentary assessment studies in
child psychology and psychiatry. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 61(3),
pp.376-394.
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