Business Administration 2295F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Convergent Validity, Discriminant Validity, Internal Validity
6 Apr 2016
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Research in organizational behaviour and personality & learning. Hypothesis: a formal statement of the expected relationship between 2 variables. E. g. , we hypothesize that people who are trained in groups will perform better than people who are trained alone. Hypotheses are not necessarily accurate we simply wish to test our hypotheses to determine their support. Variables: measure that cant take on two or more values. Predict or cause variation in the dependent variable. Vary as a result of changes to the independent variables. Participants were trained in groups or alone, then all participants were assigned to work in groups. Researchers compared the performance of groups whose members were trained together vs. groups whose members were trained alone. Participants were given an unstructured or a structured interview. Researchers compared the reactions of participants who were given the unstructured and the structured interviews. Affects the nature of the relationship between the iv and the dv.
