PSY 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Informed Consent, Heart Rate, Repeated Measures Design
5 Oct 2017
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Autistic kids had refrigerator mothers: cold, distant mothers. He recruited a small sample size (37) and 3/37 mothers had depression. He dropped the rest and conducted his study on the. No comparison with families without an autistic child. Wakefield: mmr vaccine causes autism, vaccine given at 18 months and autism is also diagnosed at 18 months, he lost his medical license in britain. Lobotomies: removing a part of the frontal lobe made people worse. Little albert: orphan who was conditioned to fear animals (they reversed it) Milgram: sending shock to actor on command. Board of ethics now must approve any research. Online database for scientific articles in psychology. Good knowledge for continued studies in psychology (or social sciences) or for interest in reading up on research. Research designs: overall plan for the study. Permits the best test of the research question. Method is the how, design is the plan. A prediction often drawn from a theory.
