1 famous psychology experiments. 2 conducting psychology experiments
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Famous Psychology Experiments
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Conducting Psychology
Experiments
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Hypothesis
• Scientific method
• Hypothesis formulation
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Operationalization• Operationalization: to put an experiment into a form that
allows researchers to test the hypothesis
• Independent variable: the variable that researchers control
Independent variable
Dependent variable
• Dependent variable: the variable that researchers are studying
• What other questions should the researchers ask?
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Operationalization (continued)• Confounding variables
• Reliability
• Validity
What else might cause nightmares?
What makes a movie scary?
SCARY
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How can we tell if a child has had a
nightmare?
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Experimenting, Recording Results, Conclusion
Recording the resultsConducting the experiment
Drawing conclusions
does cause
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Correlation vs. CausationCorrelation versus causation: just because two things are related doesn’t mean one thing caused the other
Just because happened and then
happened
doesn’t necessarily mean that
caused
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Replication and Theory Development
• Replication
• Theory development
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Experiment 1 results
Experiment 2 results
Experiment 3 results
THEORY:
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Ethical Issues• Is it right to experiment on people?
• What limits should there be?
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Ethical Issues
• Is it right to experiment on animals?
• What limits should there be?