Psychology Unit I
Your test over Unit I is scheduled for Thursday, September 7th. To post questions you have over the material for Unit I, click on the "comments" link below. I will answer the questions as they are posted, so check back often. Questions posted after 10pm the night before the test may not get answered in time. To avoid the same question being posted more the once, read through the comments before posting your own. Thanks!
posted by cldaily @ 3:30 PM
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9 Comments:
Jake-
Your current events for sociology are due to me by the due dates listed on the reminder sheet you were given in class. If you have a good one that you just want to share, give it to me, and I'll post it for discussion.
If this is in regards to psychology, then I usually find and post articles. If you have something that you think would be good to share with the class, just pass it along to me and I'll post it.
Hope this helps!
what is a volunteer bias...?
Could you repeat what the short answers are going to be i remember one about animal research but i forget the rest. (i lost the paper i wrote them on)
thanks
kcat0109
Here are the short answer:
What are arguments for and against animal research?
List and explain the 5 goals of psychology.
Why are ethics important in psychological research?
Hope this helps!
sweetnoel:
A volunteer bias just means that people who volunteer to fill out a survey may answer differently than people who don't volunteer. It may be due to the fact that volunteers want to "help" out the researchers, so sometimes they give the answers they think the researcher needs or wants to hear.
Hope this helps!
cureluv:
Remember that experiments are what a psychologist would use to show cause and effect. Just like an experiment in chemistry class, the researcher will do something to see what the results are going to be.
The independent variable is what the researcher does, or changes, in order to study its effect. For example, if I had a new diet pill I was testing, giving particpants the diet pill is the independent variable. I want to study its effects on my participants.
The dependent variable is what what changes. It is the result, or effect, of the independent variable. In the above example, I'm hoping it will be weight loss. If the effect of taking the diet pill (independent variable) is losing weight (dependent variable), then I know my pill is a success...I know that it causes weight loss.
Hope this helps!
Mrs. Daily-- I'm having trouble finding articles of psychological findings and research done by specific psychologists for topic #1 for the project. everything i've found is like "psychologists say that---" and then they don't mention psychology again for the rest of the time, and i don't really know where to look for sources. any suggestions on where to look, let me know please!
P.S. -- does research done by "mental health counselors" count?
hehe. nevermind, i found them...
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