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Slide 1 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Overview of Behavioral Research ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 2 ___________________________________  Why won’t my dog mind me? ___________________________________  Why is my roommate always so mad at me?  Does adderall really people with ADD?  AND….. Would a little bit of that help me? ___________________________________  For the Philosophical…  Why are people prejudiced?  What causes people to walk by an accident and not render aid? ___________________________________  Was Hitler unusual?  What am I truly capable of? ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 3 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ People have had questions about the behavior of others people, and animals in their environment for as long as we have recorded history. ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________

Slide 4 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Fact or Fiction??? ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 5 ___________________________________  How do we apply Science to living creatures? ___________________________________  How can we scientifically answer a question about behavior?  Doesn’t behavior change in different situations? ___________________________________  Aren’t some of those experiments performed by Evil Geniuses? And maybe they aren’t exactly legal? ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 6 ___________________________________  Comparison of an experimental group and a Control group. ___________________________________  Randomly assign participants to groups  Insure your two groups are equal  Control everything but what you are interested in.  I want to know if Adderall helps people not diagnosed with ADD to concentrate.  Introduce the variable of interest  Give half of the people who are not diagnosed with ADD some ___________________________________ Adderall and give the other people a placebo  Independent variable: Adderall  Have a consistent way to measure the effects of the variable.  Give them all a math test  Dependent Variable: Math test  Analyze results ___________________________________  Statistically compare the results between the two groups  Repeat…….. ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________

Slide 7 ___________________________________  What if I want to look at whether or not ___________________________________ children raised in a household with same sex parents were more likely to be in a homosexual relationship? ___________________________________  Or………Are political science majors smarter than psychology majors?  Can I do that? ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 8 ___________________________________  The difference between a “relationship” and ___________________________________ a cause……  Some research, which is just as valuable, can tell us if some events (variables) are “related”, but they cannot say that one causes the other. ___________________________________  Does beer drinking cause bad grades, or is there a relationship between the amount of beer one drinks and one’s grade in a classroom.  This is called correlational research: usually ___________________________________ conducted when participants cannot be randomly assigned……. ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 9 ___________________________________  Correlation shows a relationship between ___________________________________ variables  but not which came first.  True Experiment shows a temporal relationship between the IV and DV .  In this class, we will learn about both, but ___________________________________ the writing assignment will involve a true experiment.  So….ideas?????? ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________