Just to add to Miguel's points below, in drug studies and drug
treatment/intervention studies, one is likely to come across the
phrase "drug naive" meaning that (a) they have not experienced
a drug, like caffeine though today it is hard to know whether
certain drugs like caffeine have never been taken because they
are being included in more products all the time, and (b) a
person with a specific condition, say AIDS or depression,
have not been treated with a particular class of drugs. On
the latter point, SSRIs are the first line of drugs used for
treatment of depression (along with newer drugs like
Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors or NERI and drugs
that have both SSRI and NERI effects) but if these drugs
don't work, a physician might try one of the older tricyclic drugs
like imipramine and say that they are naive to this class of
drugs. Though not a definitive reference, Wikipedia has an
entry on this point; see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug-na%C3%AFve
It should be clear that, as in the case with animals that have
previously undergone conditioning, previous experience with
drugs even if ineffective, might influence current behavior.
In conditioning studies, previous schedules of reinforcement
might interaction with current schedules while with drugs expectations
(both positive and negative) might affect how a person responds
or interprets their experience of a drug.
-Mike Palij
New York University
[email protected]
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 04:20:31 -0700, Miguel Roig wrote:
My recollection of the use of the word 'naive' is usually in a phrase, such
as
'naive subjects' or perhaps 'naive rats' and was usually used in connection
with conditioning studies of the 1970s and earlier to describe animals that
had
not been previously used in behavioral experiments. When used in the
context of
human subjects research, my sense is that the term is usually used in a
manner
consistent with Allen's post and it is typically expressed as something
like
'naive as to the purpose of the experiment' or 'naive as to experimental
hypothesis'. Actually, when reviewing certain studies with small 'n', I
usually
look for this expression because I suspect that the expected assumption of
subjects' naivete as to the nature of the hypothesis/study may not be met.
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On Saturday, June 29, 2013 4:33:18 AM, Allen Esterson wrote:
In the context of an Oxford University psychology team's research report
Rick
Froman wondered if the term " naïve participant" was specifically British
usage. A Google search shows it occurs in A Dictionary of Psychology ,
Oxford
University Press, 2008 and in The SAGE Handbook of Social Psychology:
Concise
Student Edition in line with what Rick suggested, namely, a participant who
is
unaware of the purpose of the research or the hypothesis being tested. But
it
also comes up in American publications, so it is not exclusively British
usage:
http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1320&context=ijes
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