Day 19

Learning Targets: Students will be able to...

• Describe and analyze the elements of an experiment
• Define descriptive statistics and explain how they are used by behavioral scientists
• Compare and contrast research methods

Opener - What does "replicate" mean?  How does this term relate to conducting experiments?

Activity #1 - Choose one of the studies listed in the link below and provide a brief analysis of the study.  It may be necessary for you to look beyond the information in the website provided.  You are encouraged to widen your search using :

https://www.onlinepsychologydegree.info/influential-psychological-experiments/

Identify describe each of the steps in the scientific process in that study.

What was the ....

• Question
• Hypothesis
• Experiment
• Results
• Conclusion 
• Theory

Activity #2 - From what you have gathered from your selected landmark study, think about how other people in our everyday world might benefit from this understanding.  In other words, who in our world today could best make use of this information?  EXPLAIN.

Close - Psychology Today presentation and questions