PSY 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Therapeutic Touch, Randomness, Psi Chi

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 310
• Professor: chai

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Drug users tend to have other mental disorders. Ses (socio-economic status) is often confounded with variables of interest. *examples based on the study mentioned in class (fun study of the day) The process of conducting a research study: identify a problem or question to study. Therapeutic touch (tt) is a widely used nursing practice alleged to have a scientific basis. Claim to treat medical conditions by manipulating a human energy field (hef) with their hands. Can tt practitioners actually perceive this (hef): review previous research in the literature. Actually, few well-designed studies on tt; panel convened by uchsch said not a sufficient body of data, both in quality and quantity, to establish tt as a unique and efficacious healing modality . To date, no reported study attempted to test whether a practitioner could actually detect an hef: consider theoretical issues. Theory: a formal statement of the relations among the independent and dependent variables in a given area.