PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Canadian Psychological Association, Random Assignment

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Christopher Miners

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Tennis and houses produce ___ in brain: little alberts playing with rat, everytime he picks up the rat someone clashes symbols together, no he even fears santa. Informed consent (they know whats going to happen in the study) Theory: skydivers will always score below 27 on mmswe. Having the capacity to think, reason, and understand for itself . Able to correctly answer questions that require simple mental operations ,and __ where and when they are . Same outcome everytime, not giving random answers. Not in uenced by emotion or personal views. Bias: is the outcome favoured by your design: divide consenting students into two groups, the week before nal exams, give one of the groups memory pills, compare exam performance of the groups. Placedo-controlled trial is divided by eye colour. Divide consenting students into groups by eye colour. The week before nal exams, give brown-eyed students memory pills, and blue-eyed students placebos.