PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Demand Characteristics

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

Document Summary

Psyc 100 - lecture 4 - research methodology and ethics. Defining concepts into measurable variables, making something real" . Two forms: manipulation - changing a variable to create a result, measurement - observing and recording data. Within subjects - all subjects receive all levels of manipulation. Between subjects - subjects receive different levels of manipulation. May relate to causation if performed correctly. Subject attempts to predict hypothesis and are pressured to give a certain result. Researcher changes behavior to achieve desired results. Internal - how well the study tested the hypothesis.