PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Canadian Psychological Association, George Santayana, Parachuting

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Measure brain activity and brain images, ask questions can you understand me? are you in pain? etc. Thinking of tennis or houses to say yes or no will show up in different parts of the brain and alert researchers. Little albert- conditioning him to be afraid of anything white/fluffy (rat experiment). Little albert is an example of poor ethics in an experiment. Ethics: safety, benefits outweigh the risks, informed consent, no coercion (or bribery) involved, privacy must be guaranteed. ^ declaration of helsinki, analyzed by the canadian psychological association and ethics review board. Skepticism, the chastity of the intellect -george santayana. Hypothesis: skydivers are not of sound mind. Must be something able to be measured numerically. Define sound mind as: score above 27 on mmse (mini mental state evaluation, a 30 point test to measure mental state. A higher score indicates more stable state of mind) Find consenting skydivers, give them the mmse, check for values below 27.