Can coffee make you smarter?

Your intuition isnt always right.

In fact, sometimes it is exactly wrong.
HINDSIGHT BIAS
(I KNEW IT ALL ALONG PHENOMENON)
EQUAL CHANCE
RESEARCH

SYSTEMATIC INQUIRY

SCIENTIFIC METHOD

SOLVE PROBLEMS AND

ANSWER QUESTIONS
 Scientific Method
1. Question and Theory
2. Hypothesis and testable
prediction
3. Test with a replicable
experiment

REALIBITY!!!
 Research
Classification

Purpose Design
 Types of Research

PURPOSE

Basic Applied

Solve
Knowledge
problem
 The Sun to the Earth and Beyond
Pros and Cons of Hypnosis
Effects of Counseling to Divorced
Individuals
Parental Negligence and its effects to
Childhood Obesity
Symptoms of Stress and Stress
Management
 Types of Research

DESIGN

Qualitative Quantitative
 Phenomenological

Historical
Qualitative
Case Study

Ethnographic

Grounded Theory
 Quantitative

Experimental Non-experimental

Descriptive
Non-Experimental
Co
Correlational

Co
Comparative

Me
Methodological

Su
Survey
 Do you believe in Space
Aliens?

Do you think that there is

intelligent life somewhere in
the universe?
 SAMPLING BIAS

RANDOM SAMPLING
A.Eating questionable fungus
caused Bobs hallucinations

B.Bob was already on the verge of

a psychotic episode; fungus was
harmless.
 Correlation predicts the possibility of
Cause and Effect Relationships, BUT THEY
CANNOT PROVE THEM.
Experiments allow investigators to isolate
different effects by manipulating an
independent variable and keeping the other
variables constant.

Experimental Group- messed with

Control Group- not messed with

 PLACEBO

DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE

Question: Can coffee make humans smarter?

Question: Do humans solve problems faster

when given caffeine?

Hypothesis: Adult humans given caffeine will

navigate a maze faster than adult humans not
given caffeine.
 Independent Variable: Caffeine dosage
Dependent Variable: Speed at which a subject
navigates through a giant maze
MUSIC THERAPY
 MENTAL RETARDATION
Below-average intellectual functioning
IQ less than 70
Significant limitations in areas of adaptive
functioning
Levels of Mental
Retardation IQ What can be done

Mild 55 69 Educable
Moderate 40 54 Trainable
Severe 25 39 Close Supervision

Profound < 25 Custodial Care

Educable
Patient can be taught how to read and write.

Trainable
Vocational skills (cooking, sewing, etc.)

Close Supervision
Activities of daily living (brushing, wearing clothes)

Custodial Care
Client is totally dependent
 Schizophrenia
(to the tune of Waka- Waka)

Takot si Paranoia
Takot sa tao
Food may lason
Bawal hawakan
Be safe and be neutral

Hard si Catatonia
May Catalepsy
Echo ng echo
Model behaviour
Ganda at linis
Sa Residual may latak
May relapses at recurrence
Hebephrenic ay bata
Disorganized cant do ADLs

Halo-halo ka
Iba-iba
May Schizophrenia ka
Chorus:
Pagka delusional eh eh
Present realitEh eh
Apat na AA-Audi Hallu
May Schizophrenia ka
(repeat A and B)