Psychological Research: Crash Course Psychology #2

I'm watching this because I'm going to be going to school for mental health therapy, so interesting! Wanted to get a head start without the pressure of tests!

I am studying civil engineering but i've interest in psychology and i think its fun learning the psychology

Who is this guy? He is changing academic lives.

It is fascinating to see how the psychology is evolved, now we got a “digital psychology”

I got a 100 question midterm 24 hours from now, so here I am.

Watch this at half speed and you’ll be blessed with the presence of beyond-tipsy Hank. You’re welcome

THANK YOU UPTO INFINITY ♾️ FOR GUIDANCE

8:00 to 9:45 explained all the things with a real experiment

I can never get enough of this channel

this was assigned to watch for my college psychology class, and I love it

Watched this 7 years ago in AP psych, and am here again in my 2nd doctoral course following a link from a prof. FULL CIRCLE!

this is the best psychology course i could find, but, it's sooo hard to take notes from this guy😫

I had to replay the clip twice to get to understand all that information but I'm really excited to watch more of these videos to learn more.

3:55 lol that sneaky guy in the foreground, hiding behind the brown bottle, observing Hank in his natural environment is a nice touch by the graphics team xD

do you have a recommendation of a book that would explain everything about psychological research?

So basically: Hindsight Bias: Hindsight bias is a psychological phenomenon that allows people to convince themselves after an event that they had accurately predicted it before it. Suppose your friend starts eating the pizza that's been in the fridge for the past week and you tell him "week-old pizza cause psychedelic hallucinations" but he eats it anyway and soon start to wig out. You'd say "Dude, I told you so". But if you are wrong and he's totally fine, you probably won't even think about it ever again. This is known as 'Hindsight Bias" or the "I-Knew-It-All-Along" phenomenon. This doesn't mean the common sense is wrong, it just means that our intuitive sense more easily describes what just happened, than what will happen in the future. "We also tend to perceive order in random events, which can lead to false assumptions." For example, if you flip a coin five times you have equal chances of getting all tails as you do getting alternating heads and tails. But we see the series of five tails as something unusual, as a streak, and thus giving that result some kind of meaning that it very definitely does not have. That is why we have the methods and safe-guards of psychological research and experimentation which basically save the study of our minds from the stupidity of our minds like hindsight bias and perceiving order in random events. Steps of Psychological Research: Take for example we are researching "Can week-old pizza cause psychedelic hallucinations? Does coffee make you smarter? Or does it just make you do dumb stuff faster?" -Operationalizing the Questions: Figuring out how to ask general question about your subject and turn them into mesurable & testable propositions. -Theory & Hypothesis: Any Scientific method starts with a question and a theory is not a hunch like "a quad-shot of espresso makes you think better"). Theory is what explains and organizes lots of different observations and predicts outcomes. And when you come up with a testable prediction, that's your hypothesis. -Replication is key: Once your theory and hypothesis are in place, you need a clear and common language to report them with, so for example, defining exactly what you mean by "thinking better" with your espresso hypothesis will allow other researchers to replicate the experiment. And replication is key. You can watch a person exhibit a certain behavior once, and it won't prove very much, but if you keep getting consistent results, even as you change subjects or situations, you're probably on to something. Describing behavior without manipulating it and making connections and predictions from those findings: Describing Behavior: -Case Studies: Case studies take an in-depth look at one individual. They can be misleading because by their nature, they can't be replicated, so they run the risk of over-generalizing. However case studies are good at showing what can happen and end up framing questions for more extensive and generalizable studies. They're also often memorable and a great story telling device psychologists use to observe and describe behavior. For example, say the smell of coffee make someone anxious and irritable doesn't been that it has the same effect on everyone. In fact, the person may have terrible memories associated with that smell, and so his case is actually quite rare. But you would still have to look at lots of other cases to determine that conclusively. -Naturalistic Observation: In naturalistic observation, researchers simply watch behavior in a natural environment. The idea is to let the subjects just do their thing without trying to manipulate or control the situation. Like case studies, naturalistic observations are great at describing behavior, but they're very limited in explaining it. -Interviews & Surveys: Psychologists can also collect behavioral data using surveys or interviews, asking people to report their opinions and behaviors. While carrying out a surveys it's important -How you ask: Surveys are a great way to access consciously held attitudes and beliefs, but how to ask the questions can be tricky; subtle word choices can influence results. For example more forceful words like "ban" or "censor" may elicit different reactions than "limit" or "not allow". -Who you ask: And if how you phrase surveys is important, so is who you ask. For example the result of asking a room full of students at a pacifist club meeting what they think about arms control, be a representative measure of where students stand, because there's a pretty clear "sampling bias" at work here. To fairly represent a population, a random sample is required where all members of the target group, in this case students, had an equal chance of being selected to answer the question. So once you've described behavior with surveys, case studies, or naturalistic observation, you can start making sense out of it, and even predict future behavior. Correlation: One way to do that is to look at one trait or behavior is related to anot

he's the only one i have to listen to 0.75x and it does sound normal, instead of the usual 1.5x i go with others (english is not my first language so i struggle to keep up)

How many people are watching this because they actually wanna learn something? (& not just because they have an exam or are bored in quarantine.)

Watching this the hour before AP Psych Exam and actually got some vital information.

Lol who’s watching this before the AP Psych 2020 Exam during Corona 😭