AO2 points for essays

Reigner has helpfully come up with a really useful list of all the possible AO2/AO3 points that could be useful to comment on in an essay:

- Weakness + how it impacts study

- Strengths + how it impacts study

- Alternative Explanation

- Generalisability

- Ethics

- Ecological/Temporal/External/Internal Validity

- Correlation, corr. doesn't equal causation

- Cause and Effect

- Gender Bias

- Deterministic/Simplistic

- Reductionist

- Experimenter/Participant Bias

- Individual Differences

- Sample Size

- Diathesis Stress Model

Here are three more from me:

Population bias (most psychology expts are carried out on psychology undergraduates)
Animal research - evaluate in terms of generalisability and ethics
Evaluate the research design (independent groups/repeated measures etc) and say whether this was a good or bad choice of design & why

Thanks Reigner