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experimental
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- reserachers can focus on the possible effects of on eor more factors in many ways
- they manipulate the factors of interset to determine their effects
- they can hold constant ‘controlling’ other factors
- experimental group and control group
2
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double blind procedue
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eliminates bias
- neither those in the study group or those collecting the data know which group is recieving the treatment
- treatments actual effecys can be seperated from potential placebo effects
3
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placebo effect
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- effect involves results caused by expedctations alone
4
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independent variable
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- factor that is manipulated; the variable that may change when the independent variable is manipulated
5
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dependent varibale
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- factor that is being measured; the variable that may change when the independent variable is manipulated
6
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confounding variable
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- factor other than the independent variable that might produce an effect
7
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study design
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- design each study
- measure target behaviour
- interpet results
- contribute to understanding of behaviour and mental processes
8
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experimental purpose
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- test theoretical princples, not re-creations of exact everyday life behaviour
9
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resulting principle
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- help explain everyday behaviour, not specific findings
10
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psychological science
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- focuses primarily on seeking general princple that help explain many behaviour, and less on a particular behaviour
11
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predicting real beahviour
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- can lab experiments illumiate everyday life?
- controlled, artifcal environments are created to test general theoretical princple
- help explain behaviours
12
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British Psychological Society - animals ethinics
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- has guidelines for reasonable natural living conditions and compaions for social animials
13
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american psyvhological association (apa) - animal ethinics
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has established huildelines for huamne treatment and minimization of infection, illness and pain
14
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ehtinic codes of apa and bps
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- obtain potential partipates informated consent before experiment begins
- protect partipates from harm and discomfort
- keep information about individual partipant confidential
- fully debrief people
15
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values in research
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- affect what is studied, how it is studied and how results are interpreyed
- can colour ‘facts’
- can be infeluenced by popular application of psychology
16
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decpetion
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- partipates are mislead about nature of research
- controversal- violates informed constent
- permitted only if there is no otehr alternative
- must be debreifed bu competent person about true nature of research
17
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decribing data
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acurate staisical understanding is important
- casual estimates often misread reality and misinformed
- big, round, undocumated numbers warrant caution
- teaching statiscal reasoning is needed
- the presentation of statiscial information need more transparenct
18
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mesearure of central tendency
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- mode- most frequenct
- mean- avergae
- median - middle
- positive strewed (right) - mean >median > mode
- negitive strewed (left) - mode> median> mean
19
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measures of variation
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- range- difference between highest and lowest value
- standard deviation- how much scorea vary from mean
- normal curve - bell shaped
