Famous 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

• Dependent variable the variable that researchers
  are studying

• What other questions should the researchers ask?

Independent variable
Dependent variable
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Operationalization (continued)

• Confounding variables
• Reliability
• Validity

SCARY
?
What makes a movie scary?
How can we tell if a child has had a nightmare?
What else might cause nightmares?
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Experimenting, Recording Results, Conclusion

• Recording the results

Drawing conclusions
does cause
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Correlation vs. Causation

• Correlation versus causation just because two
  things are related doesnt mean one thing caused
  the other

Just because
happened
happened and then
doesnt necessarily mean that
caused
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Replication and Theory Development

• Replication
• Theory development

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?