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psych quiz 2 - P. 3
Psychology quiz 3 - part 3 going from pitfalls of experiment design
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is experimenter expectancy effect? | Unintentionally bias the outcome of a study |
| What decreases the chance of experimenter expectancy effect? | Using a double-blind design |
| What are the three ethics in conducting research? | Ethical obligations of researchers, show how statistics can be misused, and peer-review vs popular news reports |
| How long did the Tuskegee study run for? | 1932-1972 |
| What do ethical experiments do? | Ethical experiments prohibit some kind of experiments from being conducted (alcohol's effect on teens brains) |
| What are debriefing of subjects afterwards? | Letting the people know it was just an experiment and what the purpose was |
| Justification of ___ | Deception |
| What is Institutional Review Board (IRB) | Informed consent, justification of deception, debriefing of subjects afterwards |
| What is peer review? | Some other experts in the same subject reviews your work and grade it as pass or fail to see if it can be included in the journal |
| Where should you find published scientific research? | In scholarly journals (not newspapers, etc.) |
| How does the process of peer review help? | It helps identify and correct flaws |
| Why should you consider the source? | Most reporters are not scientists, so you should hold off on judging until you have read and understood the original source |