PSY 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Stanford Prison Experiment, Echoic Memory, Classical Conditioning
13 Jul 2017
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Psychology: the scientific study of the behavior of individuals and their mental processes. Scientific method: the set of procedures used for gathering and interpreting objective information in a way that minimizes error and yields dependable generalizations. Behavior: the actions by which an organism adjusts to its environment. Issues of research on humans are deception, the use of vulnerable subjects (kids, patients, prisoners), and control conditions in clinical settings. San antonio contraception study: 1970s, birth control clinic gave women fake birth - control as part of a medical study. Willbrook hepatitis study: special ed children were housed at willbrook state school in. Staten island, ny, and were intentionally given hepatitis to try to track the development of the viral disease. Jewish chronic disease hospital study: to determine the spread of cancer in a weakened immune system, experiments were performed on chronically ill, demented patients where live cancer cells were injected into the bloodstream of the subjects.
