PSYC 2360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Demand Characteristics, Social Desirability Bias, Research Question

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2360
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Ideas to innovation operationally defining dv definitions of our key terms. First, you want to develop clear, concise and repeatable conceptual. An existing definition from a credible source is useful because the definitions validity has been already established. Good self-report measures ask multiple questions (participants can then provide thoughts indicating how much they agree with each statement on a. Hypothesis-guessing: this occurs when the participant actively attempts to: if the participant don"t know which questions are the real ones, they will have a harder time figuring out the study"s true purpose. True test of a person"s belief focuses on what the person does, rather than. Self-report benefit: directly asking participant about their feelings in a quick and simple fashion, but has downside of participant being less than truthful. Multigroup design: an experimental design with three or more groups: allows us to have multiple levels of independent variable.