SOCPSY 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dependent And Independent Variables, Causality Conditions, Milgram Experiment

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 2K03
• Professor: Dr Glavin

Document Summary

The logic of causation variables and the logic of causation - when a change in something leads to change in another. Variable that has an effect on another variable. Outcome or the variable that is being caused by the iv. Possible other variables that might account for the relationships between x. For x to have caused y, x must happened and changed before y changing. For x to cause y, we need to observe variation of x and variation of y) Spuriousness - when an apparently casual relationship between 2 variables is actually accounted for by a third variable (extraneous variable: z) Whatever it is that a researcher describes or explains and then it draws inferences about. The central focus on a study or an analysis. What is directly observed - where the data are collected from. Can be the same as the unit of analysis, but not necessarily: Social psychologists are primarily concerned with a & b.