PS295 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Cognitive Dissonance, Time Series, Random Number Table
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Hypothesis people rate job candidates more positively when they act assertive rather than submissive. Iv whether a candidate acts assertive or submissive. Confederates accomplices of the researcher who pose as other participants. Whether the same participants or different participants take part in the 2 conditions. If same participants within subjects design (repeated measures) Whether the design allows the researcher to assess how much subject variables (or individual differences) are affecting the scores, and thus eliminate the influence of these variables. Researcher tries to assess the influence that some subject variable has on the dv. Called correlated groups designs because when a subject variable is having an influence on the dv scores, the scores in the two conditions are correlated. Scores in different conditions are correlated because of an underlying subject variable. Any qualities that exist in the participants prior to the experiment that may influence the scores on the dv. Any characteristics that people show relatively stable differences on.
