PSYCH 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nonverbal Communication, Paralanguage, Psych
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Difficult to study some variables in a lab. Cheaper to have subjects some to you vs you going to them. May not be precise in answering your specific research question. When we have an experience, we engage in mental simulation with respect to it. Includes the ease with which particular endings come to mind, or the ability to generate. If only conditions: picking up hitchhikers: if you never pick up hitchhikers and get robbed then you will feel worse than getting robbed by a hitchhiker when you engage in that behavior frequently. Counterfactual thinking: if only statements: green bay packers if only they caught the ball, made a field goal, or won. Husband went to bed at 6 pm because he could not handle the world. When we have little other knowledge to use. Observational research: observe a person"s behavior in a specific situation. Large time investment, problem of reactivity (know they"re being.
