15 Lecture: Psychological Research

Click on the link HERE to watch MIT Professor John Gabrieli’s lecture from Introduction to Psychology. Start at the 30:45 minute mark to hear examples of actual psychological studies and how they were analyzed. Listen for references to independent and dependent variables, experimenter bias, and double-blind studies. In the video, you’ll learn about breaking social norms, “WEIRD” research, why expectations matter, how a warm cup of coffee might make you nicer, why you should change your answer on a multiple choice test, and why praise for intelligence won’t make you any smarter.