Thursday October 22, 2020

Thursday October 22, 2020 Pod B and Remote Pod A

Circle: For seniors, where are you in the college process and for juniors what steps are you taking or know you should be taking?

Unit 2 Test: You will be taking the Unit 2 test on NEXT Monday, October 26th  if you are Pod A in class or NEXT Thursday October 28th if you are Pod B.

We will be going over test review tomorrow in class and on zoom so please make sure you are there.

Definition of Psychology: The study of behavior and the mind (mental process).

To do well on the test you must understand the following Learning Targets: 

1)Understand advantage of research over other ways of knowing?

2)Identify ways in which bias can influence things

3)Understand advantages and disadvantages of case studies

4)Understand why we can't conclude cause-and-effect relationships from correlational data

5)Understand why we should be cautious of data obtained from surveys

6)Understand advantages and disadvantages of longitudinal and cross-sectional studies

7)Understand what it means to operationalize variables(operational definition)

8)Distinguish between the independent and dependent variables in an experiment

9)Identify cofounding variables and some ways to control these variables

10)Evaluate how double blind procedure and placebos help control for confounding variables

11)Understand the role of statistics in the experimental method

12)Understand and analyze the importance of replication of experiment results

13)Summarize four ethical principals that must guide research on humans

14)Understand why researchers sometimes use animals in their research

Textbook: The reading of the text is essential.  If you want to do good in this class and the AP exam you must read it.

I strongly recommended making notecards if you want to do well.  We will practice one. The terms you should know are below:

Research Terms:

experiment

independent  variable

dependent variable

experimental group

control group

population

representative sample

representativeness

random sampling

randomly assigned

bias of selection

double-blind study

placebo

correlational research

confounding variable

longitudinal study

cross-sectional studies

clinical research

case studies

generalization

operational definition

validity

reliability

Statistics:

central tendencies

mean 

median

mode

normal curve

positive correlation

negative correlation

standard deviation

correlational coefficient

generalize

sample

population

representative

sample size

null hypothesis

Type I error

Type II error

p-value

Ethics in Research:

Stanley Milgram

informed consent

debriefing

confidentiality

Kahoot: Research Methods

Remote Work: In the classroom.  Study for test.