9/24-25 Past Studies in Psychology

PAST STUDIES ACTIVITY


1. Your group has been assigned a Psychology study that has been conducted in the recent past.
2. On a piece of butcher paper, please outline the step by step process used in the  experiment.  Be sure to include as many vocabulary terms (discussed in class so far this semester) as you can.
3. In 25 minutes, all members of your group will be asked to share in explaining this experiment (using your poster as a visual) to the class.

9/22-23 Methodology and Issues in Research

Ch. 2 S2 RG

1. What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?
2. Explain what a single-blind experiment and what a double-blind experiment are.

Copy the chart on p. 44 for your notes.

3. Provide a summation of the Milgram experiment.  What ethical issues came up from this experiment?
4. What is the placebo effect?
5. How does the case study of Hans show the self-fulfilling prophecy?

9/17-19 Research in Psychology

Psychology
Ch. 2 S1 RG

1. What is a sample?
2. What are two ways to avoid a nonrepresentative sample?  Explain both of those ways.
3. What is naturalistic observation?
4. What is a case study?
5. What is a survey?
6. What are longitudinal and cross-sectional studies?
7. What is correlation?  What does positive and negative correlation mean?
8. How does a positive correlation not give a total explanation?
9. What are the 6 steps that all experiments must have?
10. What does a hypothesis mean?
11. What are two types of variables?  Explain how these interact.
12. What is the experimental group?  What is the control group?
13. What are the seven main ethical standards/principles established by the APA in 1992?
14. On page 38 in the “Did You Know”, what error was made in polling?
15. On page 43, the “More About…” discusses The Hawthorne Study.  Read this and explain another issue with experimentation.

Due in class on 9/19

Intro to Psych 9/3-15

Syllabus assigned and Due on 9/8.
Intro to the study of Psychology

Ch. 1 S1-3.  Skits on Contemporary Approaches in Psychology.

Quiz on 9/16