PSY 2012- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 50 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Sometimes leads to faulty thinking and poor decision. Facilitated communication: by having another individual place their hand on the child- guiding their typing on a keyboard. Peer review and control group, and repeatable experiment are science. The participant have no idea they are being tested. Redo it to see if it work by receive the same result. Both the designer and the participant is clueless. Hawthorne effect: the researcher can affect its own experiment. The method you use can also affect the experiment. Reduce social desirability: saying what people want to hear instead of your own. Problem: when make it general instead of specific. Ex: when doing survey for relation instead of asking married people. Ex: is test valid to measure intelligence, personality. Case studies: studying a person for a long time. Use because it is impossible to reproduce a research. During experiment. informed consent: tell the participant about the experiment. Why testing the medication on the animal( benefits)
