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    1. Why is this study unethical? How were the men who participated and their families harmed as a function of this research?

      This study is unethical because they didn’t spread awareness to those who were participates and affected there families

    2. Why is this study unethical? How were the men who participated and their families harmed as a function of this research?

      This study was unethical because they weren’t honest because they put not just the participates at harm but there families

    3. How might the use of technology in the classroom impact learning?

      Technology may or may not have a major impact on the student ability to learn but many may argue that those who use technology to do research or take notes and study get distracted easily and find forms to cheat as rather than open book and old data use and notes

    4. Many people believe that a full moon makes people behave oddly

      If never made my own effort to make a research but i have always heard as well “its a full moon its gonna be a crazy night “

    5. Psychologists want to make statements about cause and effect, but the only way to do that is to conduct an experiment to answer a research question.

      Can certain foods that are recommended as breakfast have different effects the night time or have the same health benefits ?

    6. Even without significant life changes, some people may simply choose to discontinue their participation in the project

      Why do people discontinue the participation in the project ? Do the gain anything out of it or do scientist get any answers if many never complete studies

    7. Longitudinal research is a research design in which data-gathering is administered repeatedly over an extended period of time. For example, we may survey a group of individuals about their dietary habits at age 20, retest them a decade later at age 30, and then again at age 40. Another approach is cross-sectional research. In cross-sectional research, a researcher compares multiple segments of the population at the same time

      Longitudinal research is a form of research on a studying the same group of people for a long period of time and cross sectional researcher are researchers who compare different age groups

    8. Archival research could provide important information about who is most likely to complete their education, and it could help identify important risk factors for struggling students

      Archival research is a form of studying and analyzing using existing records to answer various of questions

    9. research is what makes the difference between facts and opinions.

      Fact is observing reality and having evidence so you can’t deny the real fact and opinion is saying what you believe yet having no evidence

    10. We should be informed consumers of the information made available to us because decisions based on this information have significant consequences.

      We should be informed consumers of the information made available to us because decisions based on this information have significant consequences . And i truly agree the way you taking in and process the information is critical to how you may act based on little information

    11. To illustrate this point, a study investigating a smartphone app targeting surgery residents (graduate students in surgery training) found that the use of this app can increase student engagement and raise test scores (Shaw & Tan, 2015).

      Use of research helps to illustrate a point and study

    12. Scientific research is a critical tool for successfully navigating our complex world. Without it, we would be forced to rely solely on intuition, other people’s authority, and blind luck.

      To my understanding meaning its important for research so we are relying on a hypothesis more than a theory . To have actual evidence proof rather then just a guessed prediction based on limited knowledge or a non sufficient evidence just rely on someone’s belief

    13. How are children influenced by the media they are exposed to?

      How are children being influenced by the media that are exposed to. I feel not just children are being easily influenced a lot of adults as well . The children are just a easier target since there still growing and learning the sense of reality what’s real or not or how things function being more vulnerable or gullible

    14. A psychologist interested in the relationship between behavior and exposure to violent images might ask these very questions.

      I’ve always had this agreement with the affect of when people watch graphic videos or triggering videos such as violent or sad triggering videos it will impact you in some sorts of way i feel watching violent videos affect a certain population due to sensitive emotions more then others sometimes it wont make you behave badly but make you have more fear or easily worry more so i do believe what you feed into your mindset by watching will have affect in a certain way but we don’t know how until you do it because we don’t know how our brain process certain images and how it can make you feel and the way we feel affects the way we act

  2. Aug 2025
    1. psychologists redirected attention to the individual human as a whole, and as a conscious and self-aware being.

      Focusing on how the mind works and process like problem solving how we remember things notice things and languages .

    2. Behaviorism is largely responsible for establishing psychology as a scientific discipline through its objective methods and especially experimentation.

      To better understand the health and well being of yourself and others by understanding development

    3. The word Gestalt roughly translates to “the form in its whole;” a major emphasis of Gestalt psychology deals with the fact that although a sensory experience can be broken down into individual parts, how those parts relate to each other as a whole is often what the individual responds to in perception.

      Seeing thing in the whole pattern and not in parts our mind naturally organizes the information

    4. many therapists believe strongly in the unconscious and the impact of early childhood experiences on the rest of a person’s life

      Influencing new ways to understand the mind and therapy

    5. Wundt viewed psychology as a scientific study of conscious experience, and he believed that the goal of psychology was to identify components of consciousness and how those components combined to result in our conscious experience.

      “Wundt studied the mind through experiments making it scientific”

    6. A hypothesis should fit into the context of a scientific theory

      “theories give a clear foundation for explanation , letting new ideas be built on past knowledge instead of standing alone”

    7. Critical thinking is the active application of a set of skills to information for the understanding and evaluation of that information

      How important do you believe critical thinking is and what do you think “critical “means

    8. What is creativity? What are prejudice and discrimination? What is consciousness?

      My understanding in creativity is creating or thinking something in uniques ways & prejudice is the attitude and discrimination are behavior in something . Also believe consciousness is being aware and responsive of your feelings and surrounding.

    9. hypothesis should fit into the context of a scientific theory, which is a broad explanation or group of explanations for some aspect of the natural world that is consistently supported by evidence over time.

      A hypothesis is like a educated guess or assumption what will happen that can have scientific investigation or experiment