PSYC 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Reference Group, Participant Observation, Naturalistic Observation
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Objectives: identify the steps in setting up a cross-cultural study, identify and apply different kinds of naturalistic observation, identify specific problems for cross-cultural research. The variable that is caused by another variable. Experiments control and manipulate variables, correlations only measure things that happen together. Correlational studies are easier to do when experiments are unethical or impractical. It allows researchers to eliminate variables that are not important. It allows researchers to be sure that people in each condition are roughly the same. It allows researchers to be more sure that the treatment caused the differences in groups and not something about the people in the groups. Difference between random selection and random assignment: selection is about constructing your sample. Those are the people you have in your study doing the project. Random assignment is when you have your sample, and you randomly put people into different conditions. ~so you want to do a cross-cultural research.
