Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Unit 2 Home Learning and Fun Stuff!

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

IMPORTANT DATES:

Thursday, September 10

  1. Unit 2 Cards spot check in class
  2. Complete BOTH Unit 2 Online Quizzes for homework
  3. STUDY your cards for the test!

Friday, September 11

  1. Unit 2 Cards due, worth 30 points, follow instructions from previous blog post for unit 1 cards
  2. Design an Experiment HW Due
  3. Last chance to turn in Descriptive Statistics PsychSim Worksheet
  4. Unit 2 TEST: 40 multiple choice and one essay
  5. Begin Unit 7: Memory for homework


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