SOCECOL 10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Inductive Reasoning, General Idea, Naturalistic Observation
1 Apr 2017
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Ex defining what violence on television is (in the idea that watching violence on tv increases aggression. So what it is, how it should be measured, the kinds (measure of aggression) Operational definitions modify concepts into clearly observable operations that anyone can see and repeat o. Interested in studying the effectiveness of a new form of psychotherapy on severely depressed people. Operationally defining the dependent variable: depression would be for instance a change in the biochemistry of depressed patients. A given concept may be defined in several ways. Construct validity: asks if the definition we are measuring is actually an adequate definition of construct we are measuring. For the depression example, we must ask whether a particular measure of depression allows us to make valid inferences about the construct of depression. Process of generalizing from a specific instance or even several new facts to a more general idea o.
