IN CLASS ACTIVITY
After discussing ethics we would watch the following tik tok video: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRW3a4Mc/
Please answer the following questions:
- What is learned helplessness?
- If you were doing this experiment on participants, what steps must you take for it to be ethical?
- If you were conducting this study, would you fully inform your participants? Why or why not?
Assignment
On PsychInfo find and read the article by Seligman, Maier and Geer (1968).
- Create an Instagram post that illustares what learned helplessness is.
- Create a reel briefly discussing the study and then list and explain what ethical issues should be raised concerning their research.
REVISIONS MADE:
After our last session I received feedback that I should separate it into a class activity and an assignment. I changed the assignment so that now it would incorporate the use of social media. I would require 2 Instagram posts (1 post, 1 reel). Before doing the class assignment we would discuss the Ethics chapter and talk about some examples of unethical research that have been done in the past and how to make them ethical. A week later they would have to create a post and reel discussing the assigned article and the ethical issues in that experiment.
LOW STAKES CLASS ACTIVITY PRIOR TO ASSIGNMENT:
READ THE ARTICLE BELOW:
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.full
- What ethical issues are raised by this study? (brainstorm with your partner and prioritize)
- Could Facebook have addressed the hypothesis without explicitly manipulating the content of the News Feed? If so, how?
