Loftus on Memory

Select a study conducted by Elizabeth Loftus on her online site:  http://faculty.washington.edu/eloftus/  Read the study and state the:

1. Hypothesis
2. Independent Variable
3. Dependent Variable
4. Describe the procedure (Methods of research)
5. Discuss whether you think this study can be generalized to the larger society?  Is this study valid and reliable?

How human memory works? (DUE WEDNESDAY!)

Read TOK: is reasoning based on attitudes? (Crane, p.82)

Which of the statements best reflects your view of the how human memory works?  Why?

Discuss how reliable you would find accounts of restored memories if you believed in statement 1 or statement 2.  Why is this so? 

Have you learned anything in TOK yet that would support your position?

IA Study

Please post the study you have chosen to do your IA on.  Summarize the Aim of that study, and why you chose it. 

The Pygmalion Effect

After reading the Pygmalion effect (Rosenthal and Jacobson, 1968), on p. 18 of your Crane book, discuss whether you think the study was ethical.  Give reasons to support your answer.