Is astrology a science? List the reasons why or why not. Explain the problems involved in “proving” that statements from astrology are true. (ch1)

The text book used for this is Research Methods In Psychology 3rd edition Gary Heiman

1. Is astrology a science? List the reasons why or why not. Explain the problems involved in “proving” that statements from astrology are true. (ch1)

2. Perform a literature search on any issue of your interest and describe what you searched and the procedures you found helpful. Contribute to other students so that you learn from each other, and make any notes which will help you when you begin searching for your research project – this assignment can be on the topic you are choosing for the research project if you wish. (ch2)

3. To test the hypothesis that drinking red wine daily prevents heart disease, we select elderly people who have consumed either zero, one or two glasses of red wine daily during their lives and determine the health of their hearts. (a) why type of design is this? (b) what term do we use to refer to the amount of wine a person drinks? (c) what do we call the amounts we examine? (d) what do we call the healthiness of participants’ hearts? (e) how confident can we be when concluding that drinking more wine reduces heart disease? why? (ch3)

4. Create a descriptive hypothesis and describe how to test it using a correlational design. (a)identify at least two important extraneous variable that might be operating. (b) how would these variables impact on the reliability and/or validity of your study? (c) how could you control these variables? (ch3)