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01.00 Experiment

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Your activity for this lesson will be to complete a graphic organizer on the concepts discussed in the crash course videos and a synopsis activity for each video.

PART 1:

Psychological Research – Crash Course Psychology #2

What are the ways that Psychological Research can be conducted?

(Please define in your own words and give an example in a complete sentence.)

	Definition:	Example:
Case Study
Naturalistic Observation
Survey
Interview
Experiments

PART 2:

Synopsis: (answer in a full 5-8 sentence paragraph)

Choose a topic to conduct psychological research on. Explain how each of the methods of research listed above could be used to gather data and come to a conclusion for your hypothesis. Highlight each method as you refer to it in your paragraph.

Case Study:

Naturalistic Observation:

Survey:

Interview:

Experiments:

Answer

PART 3:

Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median, Mode

Complete the organizer below as you view the video on statistics.

Concept	Summary, Example, or Significance
Mean
Normal distribution
Frequency Distribution
Outliers
Median
Mode
Skewed distribution

PART 4:

For the following multiple choice question you will:

1. Identify the correct answer.
2. Explain why it is correct.
3. Explain why the other 4 choices are incorrect.

 The mean, median, and mode are all measures of __E. Central tendency  .

1. Correlations.
2. Inferential statistics.
3. Statistical significance.
4. Variability.
5. Central tendency.

1.  E.

2.

3. — —

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