PSYCH-190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Confounding, Demand Characteristics, Dependent And Independent Variables
28 Sep 2020
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Those aspects of an observational setting that cause people to behave as they. A technique for gathering scientific information by unobtrusively observing people in their natural environments. An observation whose true purpose is hidden from both the observer and the. Correlation variable are synchronized with variation in the value of the other. Two variables are said to be correlated when variations in the value of one. Research methodologies that determine to what extent two variables, traits, or. Correlation coefficient: a measure of the direction and strength of the correlation, Three kinds of correlation: which is signified by the letter r. attributes are related. 0 to 1 the correlation strength of the positive correlation increases. The demonstration of how one variable influences (or the effect of a variable) another variable or other variables. When one variable does have an effect on another, you can say that you have "causation" A technique for establishing the causal relationship between variables.
