Help - Research Report, I haven't got a clue!

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At uni doing my degree and I have a research report due in on Thursday morning and I don't have a clue what to do! It's only 2,500 words which is easy enough to do, im just not sure on the content of the report. I'm not really clued up on what it is i have to be researching! I had to do an observation on a child, which i have done and by the sounds of it i then have to look at a thoery someone has written and see if I think it is right/wrong....i think! So i look at the content of the thoery then look at my observation and see if the thoery applies? God im soooo confused. Can anybody help me?

basically yes to what you said.

so,say you saw the child being picked up by his mother from a nursery, and he cried. you could use john bowlbys attachment theories to explain why he cried.

Also use theorys about play. (if this is what you saw)

do the theory first and then relate it to what you saw...this is what i had to do for psychology assignment a month ago.

so,you would introduce bowlby theories, and then link it into what you saw the child doing..ie crying at sight of mother, resisting her , etc.
does that help?
if you need anymore help, i will be around!

Cheers scorpio, think i have figured out what to do - roughly! Observed a child playing, so think i'll use Tina Bruce's 12 features of free-flow play, and try and discuss if all 12 features really apply or something like that. Or does that not sound right?

yeah that sounds right.

link the 12 areas into what you saw.

good luck!