EPSY 5601 Summer Day 1 Outline

  • How Do We Know Something
  • Scientific Research
  • Why Professors Do Research
  • Why Results May be Reported Incorrectly
  • Sir Cyril Burt (1883-1976) Twins Study
  • Henry H. Goddard (1866-1957) Kallikak Family
  • Tuskegee Syphilis Study
  • Belmont Report (Respect for persons, beneficence, and justice)
  • What is Research with a Human Subject
  • Institutional Review Board (IRB)
  • Code of Ethics
  • Voluntary Informed Consent
  • Open Research Movement
  • Single-Subject Research
    • Baseline
    • Intervention
    • Condition Line
    • Data Points
  • Single Subject Research Designs
    • AB
    • ABA (Reversal)
    • BAB
    • ABCD
    • Multiple-Baseline Design