1. The Measure of Mind

2. It is actually way more exciting than it sounds!!!!
Research Methods
It is actually way more exciting than it sounds!!!!

3. Why do we have to learn this stuff?
Psychology is first and foremost a science.
Thus it is based in research.

4. Systematic observation
Science as a Way of Knowing
methods
Experimentation
Systematic observation

5. Experimental Method Looking to prove causal relationships.
Cause = Effect

6. Independent Variable Whatever is being manipulated in the experiment.
Hopefully the independent variable brings about change.
If there is a drug in an experiment, the drug is almost always the independent variable.

7. Dependent Variable Whatever is being measured in the experiment.
It is dependent on the independent variable.
The dependent variable would be the effect of the drug.

8. The Placebo Effect
A placebo is a substance or treatment that has no effect apart from a person’s belief in its effect.
Feeling better simply because we expect to feel better—and for no other reason—is an example of the placebo effect.

9. Example of Experiment
Which is the independent variable (hint: what did the experimenter control?)?
Which is the dependent variable (hint: what did the experimenter predict would be different based on the independent variable?)?

10. Conducting Research
Scientific research consists of five basic steps: forming a research question, forming a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, analyzing the results, and drawing conclusions.
After the five steps are completed, scientists attempt to replicate the results and often ask new questions based on those results

12. Observation Watch subjects in their natural environment.
Do not manipulate the environment.
The bad is that we can never really show cause and effect.

13. psychological techniques
Survey
psychological tests

14. The Survey
Psychologists usually use a survey to gather information about people by asking them directly.
A survey is a series of questions people are asked to answer about a particular subject.
Psychologists conduct surveys by asking people to fill out written questionnaires or by interviewing people orally.
The findings of interviews and questionnaires may not be completely accurate.
People may not be honest about their attitudes or behavior.
People may limit their responses for privacy reasons.
People may say what they think the interviewers want to hear.

15. tests of sensory ability
psychological tests
knowledge tests
personality tests
objective tests 
Projective tests
ability tests
tests of motor ability
tests of sensory ability
Iq tests