9/25 Ethics in Experimentation---Problems with Human Studies

Go over Section 1.

Explain the Hawthorne Study and the issues of Ethics in Experimentation.

Watch the Milgram Experiment and Bandura's Experiment w/ the Bobo Doll

Discuss the effects of the Milgram Experiment

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? How were the professors at Swarthmore wrong about why Milgram’s subjects complied with their orders?
4.What is the placebo effect?
5.How does the case study of Hans show the self-fulfilling prophecy?

9/23-24 Experts and Notes

Experts speak about experimentation in the modern field of psychology---Inside Out Critical Research.

Students take notes on Ch. 2 S1--the following questions:

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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.

9/19-20 Intro to Research--Past Experiments

Joining a group, the students will look at an experiment done in the past in psychology and explain what the experiment was about, how it was executed, and what the results were.

9/18 Unit I Exam---Intro to Unit II

9/17 Skits on professions in Psychology

Review for Unit 1 Exam

9/12-16 Skits on Modern Approaches

Joe Case Study and the way in which different approaches in Psychology would handle the issue

9/11 Experts on the Story of Psychology

What is Psychology?

The early days of the discipline. The modern approaches.