MUSIC 2F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Indep, Dependent And Independent Variables, Research
18 Jan 2018
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Testing a hypothesis: single experiences might not be representative, personal experience doesn"t represent others, cant be sure that the testee is the only factor. An experiment can have 2 groups of participants: experimental group and control group. Another method: using a within-subjects design that has an effect on results: also the practice effect comes into play the effect of external variables on the dependent measure, manipulating the indep. Variable within each participant to minimize: this method doesn"t always work due to cost and time consumption. Results from very specific groups of participants can"t be generalized to. Improved performance over the course of an experiment due to becoming more experienced. We are trying to learn about the population by using a sample of the. Psych x03: placebo effect: effect that occurs when an individ. Descriptive stats: give you info at a glance to give you and overall idea of the results: pie graphs, charts and venn diagrams.
