0.4-0.6 Correlation, Research, Ethics, and Experiments

Myers Learning  Targets (your notes should address, at bare minimum, these): 

Learning Target #4 - The Need for Psychological Science

4-1 Describe how hindsight bias, overconfidence, and the tendency to perceive order in random events illustrate why science-based answers are more valid than those based on intuition and common sense. 

4-2 Identify how the three main components of the scientific attitude relate to critical thinking

Learning Target #5 - The Scientific Method and Description

5-1 Describe how theories advance psychological science.

5-2  Describe how psychologists use case studies, naturalistic observation, and surveys to observe and describe behavior, and explain the importance of random sampling.

Learning Target #6 - Correlation and Experimentation

6-1 Describe positive and negative correlations, and explain how correlation measures can aid the process of prediction but not provide evidence of cause-effect relationships

6-2 Explain illusory correlations

6-3 Describe the characteristics of experimentation that make it possible to isolate cause and effect