September 23, 2022

Thursday September 29, 2022

Hand back quizzes.  Stupid mistakes...?

Circle: Where do you get your news and how do you know it's accurate?

Introduce Scientific Foundations of Psychology

I Can...

1. Recognizing problems and solutions in research

2. Understanding Scientific Method

3. Differentiate Correlation and Experimentation

4. Explain Research design and ethics

5. Use Statistical Reasoning

Critical Thinking Activity: Predict the grade you think you are going to get on the quiz and then rate yourself on how confident you are on a 1-10 scale that your prediction will be correct.

Video: Why it is important to understand scientific studies.
John Oliver and scientific studies

Activity: Hindsight Bias

SQ3R next Module  Model and go thru first question.

Future...

Correlation vs. Causation: Firemen and fires, Ice cream and drowning, Shoes and headaches.

Ethics in psychological research.

Research Methods: Zimbardo Video

Activity:  TV and GPA- you will be setting up an experiment and naming all the parts to determine if the amount of screen time 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.


Exit Ticket:  Something you would like me to know.