Thursday October 15th, 2020: Green Day Pod B and Everyone else.

Thursday October 15, 2020: Green Day Pod B and Everyone else.

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

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

Circle: Do you think ranking kids by there grades (class rank) is a good/bad idea and why?

Welcome back to science class.

Science, what is it good for?  Birthweight, socio-economic status of mother and first teacher.  What can we predict.

Books in the house...

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.

Remote Work: In the classroom