Discovering Psychology 2

The scientific method is a set of general procedures for:

What is psychometrics, and how does Maslach use psychometrics in industry?

In an experiment, the main difference between the experimental and the control group is:

Zimbardo contends that a knowledge of experimental methods is important to students, not so that you all can become practicing scientific psychologists (because most of you won’t), but because:

What’s a placebo?

What are some ancient therapeutic techniques that we now chalk up to placebo effects?

How do scientists avoid Placebo effects?

Daryl Bem demonstrates a card trick. What two things does he suggest that a scientific psychologist would do to test the hypothesis that psychic powers are at play in the trick?

What is Zimbardo’s definition of an experiment?

What percentage of women reported having affairs in Shere Hite’s report on Women in Love?

How was her sample biased, and what is a more accurate estimate of the percentage?

What is science coded journalism?

How does a polygraph work?

Describe the experiment that Leonard Saxe conducted to demonstrate that lie detectors are worthless:

Getting at the truth is a difficult proposition. What do we need to do?