Unit 1: Getting Data
Text reading and review exercises:
Review Chapters 1 and 2 of FPP and do the following review exercises:
Chapter 2 [pages 24-27]: 1, 2ab, 3, 4, 12
Reading:
"What's Really Human? The trouble with student guinea pigs",
by Sharon Begley, The Daily Beast, July 23, 2010. A version of the
article appeared in Newsweek, August 1, 2010, page 30.
Document source: Linked to The
Daily Beast website.
Possible essay questions:
- What are two of the examples given in which WEIRD
subjects were found to respond differently from other
subjects? Formulate another question where there might
be such a difference.
- If you were a psychology professor designing a study,
how might you correct for the fact that most of your
subjects are probably WEIRD? Would the question you were
studying make a difference?
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