PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Quasi, Demand Characteristics, Inductive Reasoning
13 Nov 2014
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People not conscious of methods used to derive. Exact conditions under which certain rules hold. Falsifiable personality: gather data, analyze data- statistics, publish, explain findings with a theory. Different measures of behaviour: self report, direct observation. Population sample representation (such as random sample) Only method that takes into account cause and effect. Variable: something that varies but can be measured. Steps in the scientific method: problem, lit review: narcissism, testable hypothesis, prediction: bullies or bulliers are more likely to have narcissistic a. If theory is true, what are some other questions to test; deductive reasoning. From general to specific: laboratory setting- reactivity; demand characteristics (aspects of a setting that cause people to behave as they think you want them to behave) Dependant variable: what experimenter measures; changes as a result of independent. Quasi experiment: cant manipulate independent variable or randomly assign to groups variable: already in groups.
