SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chest Pain, Ipsos, Internal Validity
23 Sep 2016
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Social scientific theories deal with aggregated and not individual behaviour: goal is to explain aggregate patterns of behaviour that"s regular even though individuals within the aggregate vary over time. These theories try to understand the systems in which people operate: the elements of the systems are not individual but variables, ex. Methods for testing causal relationships between phenomena. Independent variables (x: a variable that has an effect on another variable. Dependent variable (y: outcome or variable that is being caused by the iv. Extraneous variables (z: possible other variable that might account for the relationship between x and y. The thing that is doing the order must do it before the thing that is being caused: temporal order, co-variation (association or correlation) but correlation does not equal causation. Whatever you are moving is moving together: non-spuriousness. Your mental health goes up as your exercise goes up.
