Landmark Studies
Unethical studies conducted across decades by the CIA and US Government.
What is MKULTRA?
A comparison group in a study - the participants no (or very minimal) intervention/treatment at all.
What is a control group?
The ethical principle where participants have right to withdraw from a study at any time.
What is voluntary participation?
A branch of psychology that studies the development of living things across the lifespan.
What is developmental psychology?
Ben Underwood was a blind youth who was able to shoot baskets, play video games, and navigate his house using what strategy (used by dolphins).
What is echolocation?
What did Solomon Asch actually aim to understand when he conducted studies in small groups comparing line sizes?
What is conformity?
A person in research presenting as a participant, but is actually a researcher.
What is a confederate?
The ethical principle where Participants need to understand exactly what is being asked of them, and need to understand any risks for harm.
What is informed consent?
A branch of study that combines law and psychology.
What is forensic psychology?
This research method is an in-depth study of one person, group, or event.
What is a case study?
This unethical study was conducted after the Holocaust to explore the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience.
What is the Milgram Obedience Experiment (1961)
The assignment of participants to the different conditions so that each participant has an equal likelihood of being assigned to any particular condition.
What is random assignment?
The ethical principle where Someone’s participation in research is not public knowledge.
What is confidentiality?
A branch of study that focuses on the nervous system.
What is neuroscience?
This research method involves observing subjects in their natural environment without any interference from the researchers.
What is naturalistic observation?
This unethical research model was created by Harry Harlow, who (controversially) tried to create an animal model for depression by isolating infant monkeys who were bonded to their mothers.
What is the Pit of Despair.
Participants who feel effects of a treatment, when they are unknowingly provided a sugar pill.
What is the placebo effect?
The ethical principle where identifiers are removed from data and pseudonyms are used to information is not linked to the participant.
What is anonymity?
Branch of study within psychology that focuses on conducting experiments on humans and animals.
What is experimental psychology?
What researchers are required to do with participants who experience deception.
What is participant debriefing?
The Iowa Monster study (1939) was a non-consensual experiment performed on 22 orphan children to study ...
What is stuttering?
This procedure reduces bias by randomly choosing a set of participants from a larger group.
What is random selection?
A law was passed in 1970 requiring Research Board Approval after which unethical experiment?
What is the Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiment?
A branch of psychology that focuses on researching and treating people with various psychological conditions (i.e. mental illness).
What is clinical psychology?
A common saying in psychological research that cautions people against the assumption that one variable causes another.
What is "Correlation does not equal causation"