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Goal of behavioral research correct answers to discov er how people perceive the world, think and feel, change over time, learn and make decisions, and interact with others What is the purpose of good experiments correct answers remove ambiguity/uncertainty What are the nonscientific ways of...

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Goal of behavioral research correct answers to discov
er how people perceive the world, think and feel, change over time, learn and make decisions,
and interact with others

What is the purpose of good experiments correct answers remove ambiguity/uncertainty

What are the nonscientific ways of knowing correct answers Tradition (foklore/wives'
tale/superstitions), authority, consensus (group), causal observation (personal biases), experience

Theory characteristics correct answers refutable/testable, neutral,
seek reasons/ explanations,
conditionals (if x then y), complex answers,
changes with new data,
unscathed by random events

contains relevant constructs which the theory can account for/explain

describes
associations among these constructs

hypothesized links between constructs and observable variables which can be used to measure
the constructs

Ideology characteristics correct answers Fixed/strong attitude,
moral,
obvious,
surface-level,
1 answer fits all,
simple answers,
rigid/defensive against contrary data,
over interprets random events

What is the goal of science correct answers to establish causality (cause and effect)

3 conditions for cause and effect relations to be made correct answers Direction: temporal
ordering (cause before effect)

association: covariation/ correlation (cause and effect are associated )

isolation: rule out third variables (no plausible explanation for the effect other than the
cause/limiting confounding variables)

Independent Variable correct answers manipulated/ experimental condition

, Dependent Variable correct answers outcome of interest

Newton's 4 Rules correct answers Admit no causes of things than are both true and sufficient to
explain their appearance

To the same natural effects, we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes

The qualities of bodies which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of
experimentation should be assumed to be universal qualities of all bodies

Theories obtained from experiments should be considered true until new experimental evidence
shows the old to be incorrect

Stanford Prison Study- Philip Zimbardo correct answers Prisoner or prison guard

Solomon Asch- Conformity correct answers confederates purposely said wrong answer to see if
the participant would agree with the group

Tuskegee Syphilis Study correct answers no informed consent because was not informed of real
purpose nor the risks

never given treatment or choice to quit

IRB correct answers Institutional Review Board

Dissemination and/or funding

Judgement of ethical merit of study

Exempt correct answers low risk, autonomous population

observation/survey/archival research

Expedited correct answers Some risk/recording

includes most psychology lab experiments

low stress levels but significant behavior change

Full-board correct answers High risk psychologically or physically

use of vulnerable populations

How to deal with deception correct answers Don't do it

consent to conceal

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