Key Words
What is the group in an experiment that is left alone?
Control Group
Who is known for ringing bells to hard wire dogs to learn a reflex?
Ivan Pavlov
Is it important to think about morals when making decisions?
Yes
What is the group in the experiment that receives the variable being tested?
Experimental Group
What is the technique used to evaluate the effect of a treatment compared between treated and not treated?
Matching
What was the Stanford Prison Study?
A study where students were made prisoners and guards.
What law was passed to regulate experiments?
National Research Act of 1974
What is a method based on chance alone by which study participants are assigned to a treatment group?
Randomization
What occurs after an experiment to see what has changed?
Post Testing
What was the Stanley Milgram Experiment?
An experiment to test if people naturally listen to authority.
What was the purpose of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study?
To study untreated syphilis in African-American males.
Internal Validity
A measure of accuracy of an experiment
What is a questionnaire an example of?
Pretesting
What was the moral issue in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study?
People were denied the medicine that would help their disease.
What commission was the result of the National Research Act of 1974?
National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research
External Validity
A determining of whether the cause- effect relationship found in the experiment can be generalized
What is an experiment where neither the group or researchers know which group is retrieving which treatment?
Double-Blind Experiment
What was told to the people involved in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study?
You have got bad blood.
Give an example of a moral decision that can have a gray area.
Ex. Soldiers putting a life in danger to stop the enemies from finding their position
Giving one life for others to live
Stealing to survive
What allows researchers to look at how multiple factors affect a dependent variable, both independently and together?
Factorial Design