PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Phineas Gage, Ecological Validity, Biomedical Technology
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Take one person and study them in detail (eg. People"s behavior may change if they know they"re being studied. Generalizability is limited, you cannot replicate such studies. There could be a relationship between two variables. Correlation does not imply causation; there"s no evidence, we can"t get a sense of cause and effect," what"s. Identifying a research problem: building research off of interests/previous research (flawed studies/replicating a finding/addressing limitations in previous work?, replication of studies should be found to be the same= validity. Mindful because they could influence results: independent variable- e. g. -use of marijuana. Internal: to be confident that the variable you"re manipulating is influencing the dependent variable (behavior), control for confounds. External: ability to take results and apply it to others. Ecological validity: research is meaningful insofar that it applies/resembles to real life. Consistent measurement; good consistency to how i: reliability measure things, practice effects. If a repeated experiment"s results is due to iv instead of doing experiment again: method:
