PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Random Assignment, Dependent And Independent Variables, Insulin
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PSYC 1010 Chapter 16 Notes
Introduction
Psychology’s Research Ethics
• Why do psychologists study animals, and what ethical guidelines safeguard human and
animal research participants?
• How do human values influence psychology?
• We have reflected on how a scientific approach can restrain biases.
• We have seen how case studies, naturalistic observations, and surveys help us describe
behavior.
• We have also noted that correlational studies assess the association between two
factors, which indicates how well one thing predicts another.
• We have examined the logic that underlies experiments, which use control conditions
and random assignment of participants to isolate the effects of an independent variable
on a dependent variable.
• Yet, even knowing this much, you may still be approaching psychology with a mixture of
curiosity and apprehension.
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ethics and values.
• Protecting Research Participants Studying and protecting animals.
• Many psychologists study animals because they find them fascinating.
• They want to understand how different species learn, think, and behave.
• Psychologists also study animals to learn about people.
• We humans are not like animals
• We are animals, sharing a common biology.
• Animal experiments have therefore led to treatments for human diseases
• Insulin for diabetes, vaccines to prevent polio and rabies, transplants to replace
defective organs.
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