PSYC 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Electrodermal Activity, Stanford Prison Experiment, Demand Characteristics
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All that you"re doing is presenting some sort of manipulation that has the goal to impact the outcome variable. E. g. using music to affect mood, watch video clips to affect heart rate. Get them to do or look at something to affect them. Usually involves some sort of cover story or deception or just something elaborate. E. g. social exclusion that involved confederates -- people part of study team that the participant doesn"t know about --- confederates exclude them and then we find out what happens/participants reactions. Most common ones to find in psychological studies. Problem: too artificial; read a paragraph about being. Problem: too artificial; read a paragraph about being excluded is much different than being in that situation and feeling it. Demand characteristics may occur because if you"re doing something like presenting all the info makes the study transparent e. g. there"s this stereotype of women in math now do a math test.
