Psychology 2800E Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Matricaria Chamomilla, Bubble Wrap, External Validity

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2800E
• Professor: Glen Gorman

Document Summary

Characteristic or value that can be measured or manipulated. >ex: the negative critique from the confederate to each participant, writing the essay, they got the same confederate to play steve each time. Ex: iq is a variable because everyone in the world has one and a scale on which people can be placed. Using facebook makes people feel better about themselves. >ex: define what a nice day is and conceptual variables could be temperature, chance of rain, sunshine (how to measure the nice day??) I"m feeling good because it"s a nice day . Claim is an argument someone can make (ex: advice we read online) and cane be based on personal experience/observation: frequency claims. >anecdotal claims are not frequency claims (ex: most people cannot resist popping bubble wrap. =not a frequency claim because it"s not supported by data) >ex: more than half of us teens text while driving -msnbc. com.