Unit 1 Chapter 2 Section2

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Unit 1Chapter 2Section2

• Problems and Solutions in Research
• Mr.Young

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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

• A situation in which a researchers expectations
  influence that persons own behavior, and thereby
  influence the participants behavior

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Avoiding Self-fulfilling prophecy

• Two different experiments
• Single-blind experiment-
• Double-Blind Experiment

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Single-Blind Experiment

• An experiment in which the participants are
  unaware of which participants received the
  treatment

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Double-Blind Experiment

• an experiment in which neither the experimenter
  nor the participants know which participants
  received which treatment

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The Milgram Experiment

• Wanted to see if people would administer shock
  just because an authority figure was present
• Perfect example of a single-blind experiment
  because the participants were unaware that they
  were not administering a shock

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The Placebo Effect

• A change in a participants illness or behavior
  that results from a belief that the treatment
  will have an effect rather than from the actual
  treatment

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Placebo Effect in Action

• http//www.youtube.com/embed/H9C8al3rWDQ

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Single-Blind ExperimentExperimental Group
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The Real Drugs
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Placebo Group
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Sugar Pills (Yeah)