PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Literacy Test, Cognitive Dissonance, Stanford Prison Experiment

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Alexandra Paxton

Document Summary

Do the best science you can (lecture 6, slide 4) Working through each step of the process, examining ourselves for any bias. Giving everyone else as much as you can, not hiding anything. Making sure the experiment can be performed again and produce similar results. A way to safeguard our body of knowledge. Everything in the replication is exactly the same as in the original experiment (but different participants) There are slight changes from the original experiment, but still testing the same idea. Ex: for an experiment testing effects of blood glucose levels on academic performance giving a banana instead of an apple, using a math test instead of a literacy test, etc. Deciding how reliable the results are, whether or not the conclusions belong in our body of knowledge or if the findings were just coincidences. Determining what the limits are, when the findings do not apply.