PSYCH 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Milgram Experiment, Response Bias, Institutional Review Board
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Looks at patterns of behavior across conditions. Links variables which show consistent patterns or relationships. You can"t really ethically control the situation but you can observe. In-depth study of an individual or small group. Case study of genie to end an experiment if it becomes too. One of the cases that you can"t experiment with. Ethical challenges of dual roles, treatment vs. research. You can"t lose sight of the fact that the subject being studied is a person. Findings specific to language acquisition and the critical period. Looks at behavior in a natural environment. Ex: bullying not gonna get 50 kids to a lab; rather go to a playground or observe via a video camera on a bus. You can come up with a hypothesis to explain. You can run similar experiments to test the hypothesis. Large sample size possible the closer you get to being able to say with confidence that the result applies to general population.
