PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Developmental Disability, Children'S Book Council Of Australia, Lab Report

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

Document Summary

Will save data at the end on the desktop as lab1-1002244902. csv and drag into labdisk folder. We want to prove causality, does some thing x cause y to do something specific. Fra(cid:374)(cid:272)is ba(cid:272)o(cid:374): (cid:862) we like to (cid:271)e a(cid:271)le to pro(cid:448)e that so(cid:373)e (cid:448)aria(cid:271)le (cid:894)(cid:454)(cid:895) causes people to behave a certain way (y) while other variables (z) that might affect behavior are held constant (i. e. , ruled out) We want to prove a causal relationship between dependant and independent variable. Example: want to prove that alcohol consumption (x) decreases fine motor ability (y) while controlling for (z) Dv= fine motor ability: measured in number of errors in operation. To pro(cid:448)e that (cid:862)x(cid:863) (cid:272)auses (cid:862)y(cid:863) (cid:449)e ha(cid:448)e to (cid:373)easure the (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior (cid:894)y(cid:895) t(cid:449)i(cid:272)e. Scientific method way of proving causality, why (x) causes (y), while controlling (z). You try to measure y twice, once wile x is present and once while x is not.