PSYC 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Institutional Review Board, Theoretical Definition, Confounding
21 Nov 2017
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Today chapter 4 was covered along with chapter 2 and 3. We make observations, which leads to conclusions. Our conclusions based on experience is biased, and limited, and it can go wrong: intuition: Ex: opposites attract research does not support this hypothesis, which leads to wrong conclusions. It is biased (ex: (cid:862)i thi(cid:374)k it"s this (cid:449)a(cid:455)(cid:863) or (cid:862)i feel(cid:863)) It influences results and identifies various results. They change the perspective of the story: confound variable: Ex: family support is related to good grades. Confound: ex- how serious the plane crash is, age and personality: 70-75% of people who read the plane manual survive the crash, there is no control for confound when we use experience, research vs. Ex: people with aggression is tested on. Group a is asked to relax, group b is asked to use the punching bag, group c is asked to imagine a specific target (person) on a punching bag to release aggression.
