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Essential Question: How do we do Psychology?
Go over syllabus and expectations.
Review Textbook Resources
Bell Ringer For Literacy: Read the following article: The Mistrust of Science Consider what arguments the author provides for why science is under attack. What weaknesses can you identify in the author's narrative? Thinking Routine Article on Google Classroom
Do Now: What is psychology? Take the following true/false test to see what you know:
1. Knowledge of Psychology Test
Instructions: Read each item and then circle whether you believe the statement to be TRUE or FALSE.
By feeling people’s faces, people born blind can visualize how they look in their minds.
Children memorize lists of information much more easily than adults.
Unlike humans, the lower animals are motivated only by their bodily needs—hunger, thirst, sex, etc.
The more you memorize by rote, the better you will become at memorizing.
The best way to ensure that a desired behavior will persist after training is completed is to reward the behavior every single time it occurs throughout training (rather than intermittently).
By giving a young baby lots of extra stimulation (e.g., mobiles and musical toys), we can markedly increase its intelligence.
Psychiatrists are defined as medical doctors who use psychoanalysis.
Boys and girls exhibit no behavioral differences until environmental differences begin to produce such differences.
The high correlation between cigarette smoking and lung cancer proves that smoking causes lung cancer.
In love and friendship, more often than not, opposites attract one another.
Check your score......
2. What are the ways of knowing?
Envelope/Monty Hall Problem video
Experiments with surprising results
Take Home Message: Psychology is a science!
Review Research Methods PPT Below:
Thinking Critically with Psychological Science (only go to slide 40. Pay special attention to the key terms!)
3. Practical Uses of Psychology
From Psych Today
10 Practical Uses of Psychology
A Need For Psych Science and Research
A Need For Psych Science and Research
Questions to answer for today:
-How do psychologists do research? -Review methods of research -Discuss Research Ethics
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Crash Course in Research
Review the 2 videos below to make sure you understand how the scientific method is used in Psychology and the important ethical concerns to be aware of while conducting psychological experiments:
Ethics in Psych Research
2. Review as a class: What are your questions about the presentation you viewed for homework?
Thinking Critically with Psychological Science (only to slide 40)
3. As you read answer the Rosenthal Article
Consider bias a problem for psychologists?
Consider the effect of the following on empirical knowledge:
- experimenter expectancy effect
- Clever Hans
- double-blind method
- Pygmalian Effect (also a practical application in Oak School)
4. Now that you have an idea aspects of psychological research, let's set up our own experiment. Before you begin, you must identify:
population being tested, random sample, hypothesis (including operational definitions), independent variable, dependent variable, experimental group, control group, random assignment, confounding variables, double blind procedure (Note: you may not need to use all of these terms in your experiment. You must still define each term and write about how it could possibly apply to your experiment if you had more time. Also, think about how missing aspects impact your experiment results. Think about validity and reliability)
Do the lab below in class
OR
- If time, do Helping Experiment
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