Aim What ethical guidelines must researchers follow What

Aim: What ethical guidelines must researchers follow? What are some unethical experiments that have been done in psychology? DO NOW: • Debrief – The Secrets Behind Psychology’s Most Famous Experiment Homework: • Wednesday – Test Methods, Study Guide Due • Thursday – Meet in Lab to work on Correlation Study Paper/Have all of your data collected • Tuesday October 4 th Correlation Paper Due

The Secrets Behind Psychology's Most Famous Experiment • What were some criticisms of Milgram's experiment? • What questions did you have after reading the article? • What were some other ethical issues in psychology you found? (outside research)?

After Milgrim’s Experiment the following code was created by the APA • Informed consent. – Prospective participants should receive enough information to let them decide freely whether to participate. • Freedom to withdraw at any time. • Minimize discomfort. • Keep data confidential. • If deception is necessary, debriefing must occur.

Top 5 Most Unethical Experiments in Psychology 1. Read your assigned study. 2. Report out – What is the study? Why is it considered unethical? 3. Choose/Rank Top 5 Unethical 4. Which study deserves the “Most Unethical Experiment Ever Award”

• Require psychology students to participate in research • Tell subjects that once a study has begun, they must continue until research is complete • Withhold information about hypothesis and research purposes • Deliberately misrepresent research purposes • Use animals to check the side effects a a drug to treat depression

Is It Ethical by APA standards? Page 59

Milgrim Experiment • What was his hypothesis? • What was the DV/ IV in his experiment? How did he operationally define each? • Subjects?

Obedience Milgram’s Experiments

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ABC – What Would You Do Recreation of Milgram’s Experiment 1. What modifications did the experimenter make to Milgram’s experiment? 2. What is the same? How are their findings similar/ different?

The Ethics of Studying Animals • Animals have always been used in a small percentage of psychological studies. – To conduct basic research. – To discover practical applications. – To study issues that cannot be studies. experimentally with human beings. – To clarify theoretical questions. – To improve human welfare.

DECIDE WHETHER TO APPROVE OR DISAPPROVE THE RESEARCH

Aim: To review for tomorrow’s test. DO NOW: • Read How to Create a Study Guide Homework: • Tuesday Test Methods (25 MC & FRQ Design/Critque) – Study Guide Due p. 64 • Wednesday – Work in class on correlation study • Thursday- Correlation study due.

How to Create a Study Guide • Condense • Visualize • Create examples

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Experimental Design Review P. 61/62

A psychology teacher allowed her third period to eat snacks while taking an exam. Her fourth period was not allowed to eat snacks while taking the exam. She found that the class which snacked during the test scored better than the class that was not allowed to snack. Prior to this, both classes averaged comparable scores. 1. What is the hypothesis? 2. Identify the IV , DV , Operational Definition of IV 3. Experimental Group 4. Control Group 5. Identify 1 confounding variable and how you would control for that variable.

Calculating R Value Take your data table out and Open Excel File – Calculating Correlation. Look at Exemplar. Use template / FORUMULA =CORREL(B 2: B 12, C 2: C 12) to calculate r value

Be sure to do the following in your paper. Your paper should have 5 sections. 1. Title Page 2. Intro 3. Method 4. Results (data table, r value, scatterplot) 5. Conclusion