Psychology 2800E Chapter Notes - Chapter 8&9: Hemispatial Neglect, Video Tape Recorder, Cognitive Dissonance

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2800E
• Professor: Prof

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Experiments permit the greatest control but many questions cannot be studied experimentally. Difference b. w experimental research and nonexperimental research = degree of control that the researcher has over the subjects. Manipulation; in an experiment, conditions or variables assigned or presented to a participant. Assignment; in an experiment, pairing a subject with a condition or variable, according to the experimenter"s plan. Nonexperimental research; data collection procedure often must forfeit some degree of control in return for obtaining the data. Qualitative research; asks questions regarding how people make meaning out of the world (understand themselves and the meaning of their lives) less interested in the cause and effect of beh. Correlational research; measures two or more variables to determine the degree of relationship between them. Misleading bc all research is correlational to the extent that it seeks functional relationships b. w variables. Observational research; study method in which the researcher observes and records ongoing beh but doesn"t attempt to change it.