Reminder: Test date change to next Tuesday
SQ3R notes are going to be checked on Friday. Note cards should be completed and notes should be completed.
Unit 2 Research Methods
1.Understanding Scientific Method
2. Identify Research Methods
3. Recognize problems and solutions in research
4. Statistics
5. Ethics in Psychological Research
Activity: TV and GPA- you will be setting up an experiment and naming all the parts to determine if the amount of TV watched can affect your GPA. You will need to develop thesis, operationally define the experiment, replication, population, random sampling, correlation, causation, correlation coefficent, and scatterplots. Then you will design an experiment that will try to determine how much a new medication for concentrating can impact GPA by creating an experiment and all its parts. Your experiment must address the following, random assignment, double blind procedure, placebo effect, experimental group, control group, independent variable, confounding variable and dependent variable.
Activity: Ethics in psychological research.
Research Methods: Zimbardo Video
Video: Why it is important to understand scientific studies.
John Oliver and scientific studies
Correlation vs. Causation: Firemen and fires, Ice cream and drowning, Shoes and headaches.
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