SY101 Lecture 5: SY101 Lecture 5 Sociological Research Methods 1
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Formulate a question: 2. review literature that currently exists, 3. Choose a method (qualitative or quantitative: 4. Collect data (something that ends up being quantifiable: 5. Report results (i. e. a paper, in peer reviewed article etc. ) Who was involved: scientist actor, learner actor, teacher actual participant (40 people in total) What happened: the scientist would bring in the two other people to draw paper for their roles from a hat, ** the actor was always the learner and the actual participant was always the teacher. During the experiment: teacher would give the first word of the pair and the learner had to produce the matching word. If the learner produced the correct word then nothing would happen. If the participant did not want to continue with the experiment. If the participant (teacher) expressed that they were uncomfortable with continuing on, then they were given a series of prompts from the scientist: some of the prompts: please continue .
