September 25, 2023

Monday September 25, 2023

Learning Targets:  I Can...

1. Recognizing problems and solutions in research.  

2. Understanding Scientific Method: Theory-hypothesis-research-confirm-reject or revise

3. Differentiate Correlation and Experimentation

4. Explain Research design and ethics

5. Use Statistical Reasoning

New Seating Chart

Seating Chart Activity: Introduce yourself and then pull up a picture on your phone from the month of June and share the memory with you table.

Circle: Which activities make you lose track of time?

At your table: What does it mean when I say your brain is a prediction machine?

Your prediction:  On a slip of paper write down how you think you did on the test and a number between 1-10 (1 being not at all and 10 feeling very confident) about how confident you are about your prediction?

Today: Hand back quizzes.  Stupid mistakes...?

Notecards...How to make them!

Review Homework at you table.  What do you now understand better? 

Table homework quiz.

Activity: 5-1 True or False

Activity: Lunch room/Study hall observations.  What do we want to look for?  How are we going to operationally define what and how we are measuring?

SQ3R Module 6: pages 50-57

Future...

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

Ethics in psychological research.

Research Methods: Zimbardo Video

Activity:  1) Screen time 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.  2) 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.