PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Classical Conditioning, Operationalization, Psycholinguistics

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Curtis

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Correlation the other one decreases sleep on an average night is negatively correlated with your level of anxiety (more sleep = less anxious) independent variable (iv) is the thing we are going to manipulate. dependent variable (dv) is the thing we are measuring to see if the iv had an effect. Administration conduct seatbelt observations to determine whether use varies by age, sex, race, geographic location, and type of vehicle. Knowing this helps design programs that focus on those groups and areas with the lowest observed use: the researcher does not influence the participants" behavior, so it may be more representative than if people knew they were being watched, can provide interesting descriptive data. Disadvantage: not everything can be observed in its natural environment, generally time consuming and expensive, behavior has to be interpreted by the researcher, and two researcher might see things differently, the researcher generally knows very little about the.