PSY 197 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Longitudinal Study, Transformational Leadership, Job Performance
31 May 2017
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Think about a workplace scenario come up with a cause and an effect. Ex: political behaviors cause distrust between coworkers. Cause must take place prior to effects. No other alternative explanations on the change in the effect. Participants: 200 employees from an insurance company. Procedures: scale measuring political behavior (frequent vs infrequent). Four months later, participants filled out a scale measuring their trust on coworkers. Conclusion: political behavior causes distrust on coworkers could have been time effects. In general, the goal of conducting experiments is to seek support for a causal conclusion and develop and intervention. Only a solid experiment can meet all the requirements for a causal conclusion. Random assignment eliminate group bias (difference doesn"t belong to group, but to the cause) and individual differences. Control the experimental settings allows for causal conclusion. The research is required to exercise control over the variables or variability within the experiment. Factors other than the cause can influence the outcome.
