PSYCO241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Electroconvulsive Therapy, Confounding, Random Assignment
3 Apr 2016
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I get an idea: an everyday observation about people, or, from a theory. Hypothesis: testable predictions of the conditions in which the event will occur: experimental research where the experimenter manipulates variables, correlational research where one looks at the relationship between variables w/out manipulating them. Ii the experimental approach (want to evaluate a causal hypothesis) Introvert/ extrovert personality of individual can"t manipulate that: quasi-experimental designs (mixture of subject and manipulated variables) lacks random assignment. The theory must have been in hotter temperatures, one is more likely to be more aggressive ): Aggression------------------intensity of electric shocks delivered to another person. So here"s our design so far (the person being shocked by the participants intensity of the shocks depend on the heat of the room that is what we are looking for does heat affect aggression?) Normal room (16 c) hot room (35 c) sauna temp (65 c)
