ECON102 Lecture 1: PSYC 212 - Lecture 4.docx

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Economics
• Course: ECON102
• Professor: Andrew Wong

Document Summary

Theories logical ideas proposed to explain a phenomenon: base starting point on a theory theories organize and explain factors of behavior, theories generate new knowledge because they tend to be more general e. g. natural selection, we often use the most parsimonious theory, parsimony more straight forward to test or most simplest explanation. 10 conducts most of it had to do with medical research: nuremburg code (1945 1947) the first set of ethical guidelines, milgram did research in 1963 to 1965, had 3 main people involved in the study, participant teacher, researcher experimenter, confederate (mr. wallace) learner, lever 1 15 volts, lever 2 30 volts, lever 3 45 up to 450 v. Potential benefits: benefits, educational benefit that people conducting and participating the research should know, some kind of cure or assistance with a psychological disorder, improve practice in the psychological community generally, acquire a skill, risks, stress (psychological or physiological, confidentiality, physical harm, confidentiality, not conducting study.