PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Confounding, Dependent And Independent Variables, Random Assignment

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

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Whenever there are drug related studies, a special kind of drug is used called a placebo. Placebo is the drug you give them, and when it works it"s called the placebo effect. : something you give to someone to trick them, which can sometimes work. control group. Placebo control group: usually used in drug-related studies where people might have strong expectations about drug effects. Is a special type of control group that is used to control for subjects" expectations that could affect results. Assign numbers and assign people to these numbers. One group is the experimental group and the other is the independent variable. If your hypothesis doesn"t hold true, step back and see i there are some sort of flaw in your study before you go any further. Confounding variable: variable that you don"t want because it screws up your study. It"s a variable that interferes with the result of the study.