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PSY 501 LU Interpreting Scientific Method & Pseudoscience Discussion

 

Begin by participating in one of the psychological research studies provided from the links below.

https://www.socialpsychology.org/expts.htm#sjudgme…

https://psychcentral.com/blog/top-ten-online-psych…

The first link includes current studies that are being conducted within the field of social psychology. The second link is to a listing of the top 10 psychology experiments in a wide variety of areas within the field of psychology.

After selecting a study and participating in it, see if you can discuss how this study meets the criteria for the scientific method. What were the key ingredients?

Include a description of what the word pseudoscience means, and provide an example of this type of finding from a research study within the field of psychology or another related field. Briefly detail why this study does not meet the criteria for science and what steps were overlooked, along with some discussion regarding why the results are not readily accepted within the larger scientific community. Where is the flaw in the method, logic, or conclusions of the study? What, if anything, could you do to remedy this – for example, how might you make the method more scientific and/or provide conclusions that are more logical and scientific?