PSYC 3402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stanford Prison Experiment, Random Assignment, Confounding
29 Sep 2016
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Social psych lecture 2: correlation research: detecting natural associations. Asking whether 2 or more factors are naturally associated. #3: some people"s religions have natural guidelines. #2: iqs are based on the country"s intelligence. #5: deeper core message of abstinence-sex education is under emotion therefore leads to homicide rates. #5: some people who don"t believe in that may feel like their culture is suppressing them and therefore causes aggression. #6: better sperm can be associated to better physical physique. #6: better sperm can be connected to biological inheritance. #7: can be caused by your peers, social environment, media. #7: person can be genetically more risk-seeking and have predisposition traits. Measures the strength and the direction between variables. Range: +1. 0 to -1. 0: absolute value (or number itself) is indicative of the strength hence how strong the variables are. Positive and negative = direction of relationship.
