Design an Experiment Assignment (Due Fri. 9/11)
Plan a psychology-related experiment that you would like to conduct on humans. Write your plan in paragraph form. Address the following in your paragraph:
- theory
- hypothesis
- independent variable
- operational definition of the dependent variable
- experimental group
- control group
- How will you control for bias? (give two techniques)
- What ethical considerations will you use? (give two)
See the American Psychological Association's guide for high school experiments here: https://www.apa.org/education/k12/science-fair-manual.pdf
FUN LINKS:
http://www.ikeepbookmarks.com/Lara_Herrera/Psych_Unit_2:_Research_Methods
Here you'll find the links to Spurious Correlations, The Amazing Randi's TED Talk, and more!
And remember to watch Crash Course for every unit! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFV71QPvX2I
Here you'll find the links to Spurious Correlations, The Amazing Randi's TED Talk, and more!
And remember to watch Crash Course for every unit! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFV71QPvX2I
IMPORTANT DATES:
Thursday, September 10
- Unit 2 Cards spot check in class
- Complete BOTH Unit 2 Online Quizzes for homework
- STUDY your cards for the test!
Friday, September 11
- Unit 2 Cards due, worth 30 points, follow instructions from previous blog post for unit 1 cards
- Design an Experiment HW Due
- Last chance to turn in Descriptive Statistics PsychSim Worksheet
- Unit 2 TEST: 40 multiple choice and one essay
- Begin Unit 7: Memory for homework
Unit 2 Slides used in class:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4xdTlrmZTl3VUtVNnhsOWNuZmM/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4xdTlrmZTl3VUtVNnhsOWNuZmM/view?usp=sharing
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