Tuesday 25 May 2010

More exam marking...

Yes it's that time of the year again - when academics face up to the tricky task of marking students' exam scripts.

Finished marking my share of undergraduate social psychology papers. Just in case you are interested (?) here are some examples of the questions they were answering:

With reference to a range of theoretical models, discuss the suggestion that "without stereotyping, there would be no prejudice, and the world would be a better place".

Critically compare the following approaches to social psychological phenomena, in terms of their assumptions and the methodologies they use: personal construct psychology, interpretative phenomenological analysis and narrative approaches to identity. Illustrate your answer with examples from published research.

Discursive psychologists tend to focus on identity work or identification, as a process. Critically discuss how this approach contrasts with that of cognitive social psychology. Illustrate your answer with examples from published
research.

As Aleksandr Orlov would say: "Simples...!"

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