You have three assignments for the week. If you miss class you are still responsible for these and they will be DUE on your chapter 1 test day.
Remember that your test is next week (Periods 2&4 test Monday 9/14, Periods 1&3 test Tuesday 9/15)!!!
ASSIGNMENT 1: ETHICS
I gave notes about ethical considerations for research in class, which you'll need to complete this assignment. If you missed the notes, here are the basics:
All research studies must abide by the following guidelines.
1. Participants must give informed consent
2. Participation is voluntary
3. Participants may withdraw from experiment at any time
4. Participants must be debriefed about the nature, results, and conclusions of the research (often done at the end of the experiment)
5. Information about research participants must remain confidential
6. All research proposals must be approved by a review board who will consider, among other things, whether the potential benefits of the research in terms of new knowledge and human welfare outweigh any potential harm to the participants.
For a more detailed explanation, check out the complete American Psychological Association's Ethical Principles:
http://www.apa.org/ethics/code2002.html
Ethics in Psychology Discussion & Application Exercise
Directions: For each scenario, consider the ethical consequences of the proposal writing down key points. Decide whether or not you would approve the study indicating why.
Proposal #1: Researchers are interested in testing the hypothesis that invasion of personal space can bring on a change in physiological arousal.
Procedure: Male lavatory users entering a 3-urinal lavatory will be randomly assigned to 1 of 3 levels of interpersonal distance and their micturation times will be recorded. A confederate will stand either immediately adjacent to the participant, one urinal away, or will be absent. An experimenter will be in the stall recording micturation times. The findings would provide objective evidence that personal space invasions produce physiological changes associated with arousal.
Proposal #2: Researchers are interested in seeing the effect of stress on intelligence test performance.
Procedure: Forty college students will take a bogus pretest and will be given “results.” The experimental group will be told that they failed the test and that it is surprising that they were able to do well enough in high school to get into college. The control group will be told that they passed the test with flying colors. All of the students will then be given a real intelligence test to see which group did better. At the end of the experiment, all students will be debriefed and told that the pretest was not real and explained the true purpose of the study.
Proposal #3: Can babies be conditioned to fear an item that they originally had no fear for?
Procedure: Babies would be acquired from a local orphanage, eliminating the need for parental permission. The babies would first play with white rats and bunnies, which they enjoy. During the conditioning process, whenever the baby would pet the furry small animal, an assistant would bang a hammer on a steel bar creating an extremely loud noise. The babies would cry and cringe with fear whenever they heard the bang. This will be continued until just the site alone of the animals would cause the babies extreme fear.
ASSIGNMENT 2: DESIGN AN EXPERIMENT
You may work alone or with a partner to design an experiment. Be creative (and funny if you want to) and design an interesting psychological experiment. An example of what I want is a hypothesis like: Third graders who wear purple socks are more likely to be hyperactive.
Explain the idea for your experiment in a brief paragraph. Then identify the following parts of your experiment:
1. Hypothesis:
2. Control Group:
3. Experimental Group:
4. Independent variable:
5. Dependent variable:
6. Ethical considerations:
7. A potentially confounding variable:
8. Explain three controls (random selection, random assignment, single/double blind)you will have in place to control for extraneous variables (aka potentially confounding variables)or bias:
... The funniest/ most interesting experiment in your class will earn you 5 extra credit points! (All parts must be correct to get the bonus)
ASSIGNMENT 3: STATISTICS (REQUIRES INTERNET CONNECTION)
First, go to
http://bcs.worthpublishers.com/hspsych8e/pages/bcs-main.asp?v=category&s=00080&n=99000&i=99080.01&o=|00510|00520|00660|00530|00540|00550|00560|00570|00580|00590|00600|00610|00620|00630|00640|00650|00010|00020|00030|00040|00050|00060|00070|00080|00090|00100|00110|00120|00130|00140|00150|00160|00180|00190|00000|01000|02000|03000|04000|05000|06000|07000|08000|09000|10000|11000|12000|13000|14000|15000|16000|17000|18000|19000|20000|21000|99000|
to download and print the following handout:
Descriptive statistics
Next, go to http://bcs.worthpublishers.com/hspsych8e/pages/bcs-main.asp?v=category&s=00060&n=01000&i=01060.01&o=|00510|00520|00660|00530|00540|00550|00560|00570|00580|00590|00600|00610|00620|00630|00640|00650|00010|00020|00030|00040|00050|00060|00070|00080|00090|00100|00110|00120|00130|00140|00150|00160|00180|00190|00000|01000|02000|03000|04000|05000|06000|07000|08000|09000|10000|11000|12000|13000|14000|15000|16000|17000|18000|19000|20000|21000|99000|&ns=0
scroll down, and click on Descriptive Statistics. Complete the tutorial as you complete the corresponding worksheet you printed.
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