PSY BEH 118D Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Informed Consent, Content Analysis, Snowball Sampling
29 Aug 2016
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Chapter 3: sex research: whether they rely on people"s self-reports of sexual behavior or whether scientists observe directly, large group or small group, lab or field studies, natural or manipulated sexual behavior. Sample: group taken from the population: random sample results are safer to generalize to whole population probability sampling used. Each member of population has a known probability of being included in the sample: main problem: getting people to participate. Problem of refusal and nonrespondance: people do not participate in the studies. Accuracy of self reports: respondents may engage in purposeful dissertation. Purposeful dissertation: purposely giving false info on a survey. Enlargement or concealment: two factors related: Difficulties with estimates: to fix this, researchers use test-retest reliability. Test-retest reliability: tested twice and answer similarities compared. Of husband and wife: three methods of collecting data. Over the phone: casi (computer assisted self-interview) Extraneous factors: gender, age, race, wording of questions. Ethical issues: informed consent, protection from harm.
