PSYC 1000 Lecture : intro to research
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Psychologists look at existing data to test a hypothesis. Variables by producing a change in one variable in a. Disadvantage : data may not be in a form that allows the researchers to test situation and observing the effects on the second variable a hypothesis fully. Advantage : get to see how people behave in their natural habitat. Disadvantage : cannot the behavior control / alter. Experimental manipulation : changes that the expirementer changes deliberate to produce a situation. F- piri mental group : any group participating in an experiment that vecieves a treatment. Random assignment to conditions : participants are assigned to different expirimental groups or conditions on the basis of chance. Disadvantage : many people may respond in that is not honest such a way. The variable that is manipulated by the expected to change as a result of by the expirim enter. In depth , intensive investigation into an changes. in/-heindependantvariais:
