PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: External Validity, Internal Validity, Field Experiment
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Chapter 2 the methods of social psychology psyb10. Why do social psychologists do research (and why should you. Observation are often misleading, so any tentative conclusions gleaned from observation should ideally be tested w/ other methods. Archival research: research can be conducted w/o leaving library, evidence is found in archives of various kinds (record books, police records & etc) One guess about why southerners are more likely to commit homoside is that. Southern attitudes might be more accepting of violence. In later versions, debriefing are used to educate participants about the questions being studied. Intervention is an effort to change people"s behavior: applied research can produce results that feed back into basic science. Institutional review board (irb) is a university committee that examine research proposals & makes judgments about the ethical appropriateness of the research. Debriefing procedure is very important for participants when they have been deceived/made uncomfortable.
