The final week!

Our last lecture is on Friday in which we are doing our group presentation!!

It has actually gone really well so far and our topic of jury decision making is very interesting! i have finished writing my slides for the collaborative presentation as have some of the others so we are on track for Friday...

We had our first lecture of presentations last Friday and it was very interesting to see every one else's topics presented to us. They were all good and explained everything well however a few were slightly long and after sitting their for 3 hours watching them i was slightly dazed!

This has given us incentive to make sure we include all the key points surrounding our topic but to make sure that it is short and sweet as to get the information across but not to bore people! Hopefully we will achieve this but its easier said than done!

I have just spent the evening reading, making notes and getting to grips with my article by terry Connolly which i am writing about in the end of semester wiki and am now ready to write it up this week! I was hoping to get it done by Christmas as want to have it all finished by the holidays!

I will let you know how the presentation goes on Friday...

Time to start our final wiki and presentation

We all met up as a group today and David helped us to look at the papers on jury decision making in more depth and helped us to understand the more technical aspects of the papers. We divided the paper which we are doing for our presentation, the one by Dhami on jury decision making beyond reasonable doubt. I was assigned the task of writing a few slides on explaining the aims and methods of both the experiments that were conducted within the paper. We are presenting our slide show in the final week of the term so we have time to get it all together.

Finally for our final wiki we have then divided up the papers into equal amounts for everyone to write about, as it only has to be 2000 words in total it is going to be hard task to condense all the technical details into something like 300 words for each paper. I am writing about an extract by terry Connolly from the textbook judgement and decision making, me and Sarah are sharing this article as it is slightly trickier than the other 2 however since David went through it earlier it is a lot clearer!!

I will let you know how i get on with these task in the next week!

Doing our first Wiki and making a start on our last!

Our first Wiki was due in last week and it was a new experience when writing it!

Firstly we had to sort out amongst our groups through numerous emails who would play what part in the wiki in order for it to be a collaborative effort and everyone have the same amount of work to do! I found it a new task in which i had never used google for anything other than searching the web before!

My part in the wiki was to not read a specific paper but to in general describe framing effects. Within my 500 words i had to do an introduction with a brief description of what framing effects are and how when wording a question in a different way can produce such a significant difference in answers! I then had to wait until the rest of my group had completed and read the papers they were assigned so i could read through them all and tie the project together with a conclusion.

Everything went smoothly until the end of the first week when one person hadn't written their piece as i hadn't checked that day but the deadline had been extended, so unbeknown to this i wrote the conclusion without including the paper that she had written. When the mistake was rectified i then added in a section on the paper she read as it was similar to one of the others it was not too difficult!!

My role in the paper helped me a lot as i got to read everyone's pieces m0re than once to gain an idea of what they were trying to do conduct individual research into framing effects as a whole and by writing the conclusion made sense of it all and tied it up in my mind!!

The whole idea of framing effects i now find very interesting and understand in a much better way than before. I can see myself looking at real life situations in which framing effects are apparent and recognising them.

We have been given our topic for the end of term wiki which is jury decision making!! It was our second choice so we are very happy with it as our whole group are doing the module forensic psychology in which one of the lectures was on jury decision making. It was something that interests us all so i feel this will show in our wiki!

We are all reading the same paper for next week when we are going to meet up in the lecture and sort out our presentation we are doing in the last week.