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Ethical Aspects of Participating in Psychology Experiments: Effects of Anonymity on Evaluation, and Complaints of Distressed Subjects.
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Britton, Bruce K.; And Others – Teaching of Psychology, 1983
Distressed research participants were identified and contacted to investigate their experiences. Anxiety due to physical discomfort was the primary complaint. However, the experiments had very mild distress effects on the subjects. Anonymity did not influence responses. (CS)
Descriptors: Ethics, Experimental Psychology, Higher Education, Psychological Studies
Teaching Rival Hypotheses in Experimental Psychology.
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Howard, George S.; Engelhardt, Jean L. – Teaching of Psychology, 1984
Students critiqued research contained in the book "Rival Hypotheses" (Huck and Sandler, 1979), which contains studies dealing with knowledge claims of practical importance, e.g., the evidence that saccharine causes cancer. (RM)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Critical Thinking, Experimental Psychology, Higher Education
The First Course in Experimental Psychology: Goals and Methods
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Underwood, Benton J. – Teaching of Psychology, 1975
A psychology course which uses original experiments to test about research design and validity is described. (DE)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Experimental Psychology, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation
Special Projects Laboratory in Experimental Psychology
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McGill, Thomas E. – Teaching of Psychology, 1975
A laboratory course in experimental physiological psychology and animal behavior is described. (DE)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Experimental Psychology, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation
Symposium: Teaching the Experimental Psychology Course
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Siegal, Michael H. – Teaching of Psychology, 1975
How the criticism of a teacher led to the improvement of his experimental psychology course and a symposium on teaching experimental psychology. (Author/DE)
Descriptors: Conferences, Course Descriptions, Experimental Psychology, Higher Education
The Rationale for the Practice of Randomly Assigning Subjects to Groups: Its Treatment in Textbooks in Experimental Psychology, and Some Suggestions
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Sohn, David – Teaching of Psychology, 1977
A survey of how 17 recent experimental psychology textbooks treated the subject of random assignment of subjects to groups for purposes of experimentation is discussed. Findings indicate that the textbooks generally gave favorable coverage to the practice. Further research might improve this simplistic understanding. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Classification, Educational Improvement, Error Patterns, Experimental Psychology
An Advanced Laboratory Course in the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
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Michael, Jack – Teaching of Psychology, 1975
An experimental psychology course which analyzes the broad probability of operant conditioning is described. (DE)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Experimental Psychology, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation
Teaching a Research Methods Course in Developmental Psychology: Some Principles, Methods, and Problems
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Harris, Lauren Jay – Teaching of Psychology, 1975
A course in teaching research methods in an experimental child psychology course is described. (DE)
Descriptors: Child Psychology, Course Descriptions, Experimental Psychology, Higher Education
Introduction to Computer Data Generators
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Gregory, Robert J. – Teaching of Psychology, 1977
Describes the use of computer programs in the teaching of psychology research design and data analysis. Case studies involving large and small computer data generators are presented. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Science, Data Analysis, Educational Games
Social Artifact Research and Ethical Regulations: Their Impact on the Teaching of Experimental Methods.
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Adair, John G.; And Others – Teaching of Psychology, 1983
An analysis of research methods textbooks in psychology showed that little coverage is given to control issues in research, such as experimenter expectancies and subject bias. However, space and attention given to research ethics has increased considerably. This is probably due to imposition of controls from the government and the profession. (CS)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Ethics, Experimental Psychology, Experimenter Characteristics
A Classroom Demonstration of Single-Subject Research Designs.
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Carr, James E.; Austin, John – Teaching of Psychology, 1997
Provides a brief overview of single-subject research designs. This method exercises its power by examining changes in single subjects' responses over time across experimental conditions. Describes a classroom project in which students collect repeated measures of their own behavior and graph the data. (MJP)
Descriptors: Causal Models, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Demonstrations (Educational)