PSY 2012 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Institutional Review Board, Nocebo, Demand Characteristics
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Harm resulting from the mere expectation of harm. Phenomenon in which researchers hypotheses lead them to unintentionally bias the outcome of a study. When neither researchers nor participants are aware of who"s in the experimental or control group (t/f): it is important in an experiment that there is double-blindness. True (t/f): it is important in an experiment that scientists should not provide the placebo treatment to members of the control group. Give an example of the experimenter expectancy effect. The clever han"s horse detecting subtle physical cues emitted by questioners. (t/f): if an experiment has random assignment and manipulating things for which item each group received, then it is really an experiment. Cues that participants pick up from a study that allow them to generate guesses regarding the researcher"s hypotheses. Scientists were being immoral by withhold medical treatment from 399 african american men because the scientists wanted to see how long they could go on living with untreated syphilis.
