Rick Adams wrote:
"Some forms of alternative medicine don't lend themselves well
to a rigid double-blind research approach (to use a psychological
anology, try designing a double blind experiment to demonstrate
the efficacy of cognitive therapy...
Point well taken, Rick.
-Mike
The following passage is an excerpt from an invited guest editorial that
appeared in the June, 1999, issue of General Hospital Psychiatry, vol. 21,
#3. ©Elsevier Science, Inc.
Invited Guest Editorial:
The Ethics of Research Involving Memories of
Hi folks wherever you are:
I hope that my voice won't echo futilely into the summer silence here.
I was wondering if anyone on the list had a demonstration of the workings of
attentional processes and resrouces that could be done without too much
difficulty in a classroom. What I mean is
Rick Adams wrote:
"Some forms of alternative medicine don't lend themselves well
to a rigid double-blind research approach (to use a psychological
anology, try designing a double blind experiment to demonstrate
the efficacy of cognitive therapy...
Nothing like a little
I tried this once and it worked alright. Basically, I told them a group I
was going to lecture on a topic. They were to be quizzed on it right after.
In addition, their notes on that lecture were to be graded right after.
Listening and taking notes. The other group were to take the quiz,
Stephen-
Not quite double blind, but very very close. You would also have to
ensure that the therapists were equally convinced of the effectiveness of
their treatments otherwise differential experimenter enthusiasm could
affect the Ss responses. That quibble aside, I agree that it would be
Hi out there --
Quite serendipitously, I stumbled into a new research area, "free-riding"
in virtual work groups. A colleague and I are planning a series of analog
studies using students enrolled in a Computer Architecture course [and
possibly others], who will complete group projects either
You are correct that you cannot do double-blind research in some
areas but you can do good research. You can randomize patients to
type of treatment. You can have someone other than the patient and
the therapist do the assessment of status.
I participated in the original Listerine clinical
At 5:38 PM -0400 8/10/99, Michael J. Kane wrote:
Someone once said, and I paraphrase, that there is no
"alternative medicine;" there is medicine that works and
medicine that does not.
I like this. Any system, drug, herb, practice, etc. that can be
demonstrated to cure illness in double-blind
To others interested in attention resource demo's, please
see below. I accidentally sent it back only to Nancy, not
to the whole listserve.
-Mike
Hi Nancy,
I've never used these in class, but I've either used them in my
research or my colleagues have used them as class projects:
1) Bring
At 8:34 AM -0700 8/11/99, Don Allen wrote:
Stephen-
Not quite double blind, but very very close. You would also have to
ensure that the therapists were equally convinced of the effectiveness of
their treatments otherwise differential experimenter enthusiasm could
affect the Ss responses. That
Hi
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Rick Adams wrote:
Stephen Black wrote:
Randomly assign subjects to either placebo therapy or cognitive
therapy. So far, we have single-blind (subjects don't know which is
the placebo). To make it double blind, have the outcome measures
taken by independent
Rick Adams
Stephen Black wrote:
Bingo, double-blind study. QED.
Except that, since the experimenters themselves would
know if they were administering the placebo therapy or not,
their interactions with the subjects could be compromised
by the knowledge and the results skewed.
Rick Adams wrote:
The alternative treatments approach, on the other hand, would not be
testing the specific therapy alone, but would instead be comparing it to
another known therapeutic system--a very different kind of experiment.
... I'll stick to my premise that in
Hi Dawn and Tipsters!
Dawn Blasko wrote:
Let me add my congratulations to Linda and Diane as well.
Thanks!
They both look
like great projects. Perhaps TIPsters would like to hear about them sometime?
--
No need to twist my arm ;-) Anyway, I've enclosed two sections of the proposal
-
Nancy,
To demonstrate the attentional resource differences between novices and
experts I do the following demo:
Materials needed: 3 soft balls for juggling (tennis balls work)
1. Ask for a volunteer who can juggle.
2. As the volunteer juggles ask him/her questions, begin with easy
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