Or sometimes more generally, 'experimentally naive' meaning not having previously experienced the experimental conditions, be they drugs or experimental manupulations.
On Jun 29, 2013, at 1:10 PM, Mike Palij wrote: > 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. > > ----- Original Message ----- > 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 Paul Brandon Emeritus Professor of Psychology Minnesota State University, Mankato [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=26280 or send a blank email to leave-26280-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
