PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Unimodality, Multimodal Distribution, Descriptive Statistics

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Steven Barnes

Document Summary

Experiments are the method used by scientists to determine causality: correlation studies do not allow you to determine this, experimenter will design two or more conditions under which the subject will be tested. Between subject design: a different group of subjects is tested under each condition (experimental vs control group) Within-subjects design the same group of subjects is tested under each condition: would have to counterbalance the participants (change the order) Experimenter expectancy effect: effect on subjects due to beliefs or expectations of experimenters, double blind design avoids this and avoids confounded variables. Statistical reasoning describing data part 1 & part 2, making inferences. What about culture and gender: weird, western, educated. Industrialised: rich, democratic, even when behaviour varies by gender or culture there are underlying commonalities. Ethics: some psychological experiments involve deceptions or manipulations that might be deemed harmful to participants ex.