Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Jane Goodall, Naturalistic Observation, Social Desirability Bias

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Physiological measures: heart rate, blood pressure, respiration rate, hormonal excretions etc. Case studies: treating cases of failure to thrive(starvation) in human infants. 3) lack of objectivity in the way the researcher gathers and interprets data. Naturalistic observation: the researcher observes behaviour as it occurs in a natural setting. Would respond 2) based on self-reports which is on the assumption people do not lie/know themselves: can be distorted by social desirability factors and does not represent cause-effect relations. Asks questions about associations between naturally occurring events or variables - three components 1) the researcher measures one variable(x)wealth 2) researcher measures a second variable(y)happiness: researcher determines statistically whether x and y are related. Three essential characteristics: - manipulation of one variable - measure if this manipulation produces changes in the second variable - attempt to control extraneous factors. Independent variable: the factor that is manipulated by the experimenter dependent variable: the factor that is measured by the experimenter * the dependent variable.