Vocabulary
This is a proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation/research?
What is a hypothesis?
T or F: The subjects of the Tuskegee Study were aware that they were not being tested.
What is false?
In this type of experiment, experimenters look at people in their normal environment to gather data about their behavior, usually the subjects are unaware they are being observed.
What is naturalistic observation?
T or F: a larger sample size makes the experiment more valid/reliable.
What is true?
T or F: Psychologists are required to tell the truth to participants in the study.
What is true?
These are the variables that are changes or tested in an experiment.
What are independent variables?
Give an example of one of the ethics that was violated during this experiment.
Answers will vary.
This type of experiment requires subjects to give answers to questions to decide how they will react in certain situations.
What is the survey method?
Psychologists have deemed this to be a good predictor of success long term. (think of the marshmallow study!)
What is impulse control?
T or F: The Stanford Prison Experiment was conducted ethically.
What is false?
These variables remain the same in the experiment/the outcome of the experiment.
What are dependent variables?
This practice of telling the subjects of an experiment what is happening to them is the first rule of the Nuremberg Code and also lacked in the Tuskegee study.
What is informed consent?
In this type of experiment, the experimenter is aware of which subjects are receiving the placebo, but the participants are unaware of it they receive the medicine or not.
What is a single-blind study?
This is the only experiment we discussed that was conducted ethically.
What is the marshmallow experiment?
This ethic is treating everyone in the study fairly and equally.
What is justice?
This is the number of subjects included in a given study. (think amount of M&Ms)
What is the sample size?
This is how long the Tuskegee Study went on for.
What is 40 years?
In this type of experiment, both the experimenter and the subjects are unaware who received the medicine and who received the placebo.
What is a double-blind study?
This is a harmless pill that is given to subjects in an experiment to test the psychological benefits of medicine rather than the physiological.
What is a placebo?
This ethic is about telling the truth to participants of the study and ensuring their consent.
What is integrity?
This is redoing an experiment with new test subjects to see if the results remain the same or change.
What is replication?
This organization in the federal government takes over funding for the Tuskegee study during the Civil Rights Movement.
What is the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)?
In this type of experiment, the research looks into one or more people through observation, interviews, and written record.
What is a case study?
In this type of experiment, the entire population for a specific phenomena are studied for a specific amount of time (for example, all women with breast cancer will be studied for 5 months.)
What is a cross-sectional study?
This double word ethic essentially boils down to do no harm to the participants of your study.
What is beneficence and nonmaleficene?