PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Descriptive Statistics, Central Tendency, Psych

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Agnieszka Kopinska

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Person 1 has an expectation (thinks she"s rude) towards person 2 that effects. Now because person 1 is acting that way, person. 2 starts acting rude also, now person 1 believes their expectation was correct: expectation -> behaviour (p1) -> con rm -> behaviour (p2, ^___________________________________________^ Double - blind procedure : where not only is the subject unaware of the hypothesis or the experimental conditions but so is the experimenter: best to make the least amount of contact with subject. Two experimenters are involved, one knows the whole study but the one who directly interacts with the subjects is unaware of some aspects in order to avoid giving off any social ques: ex. If a study is conducted on alcohol consumption. One experimenter mixes the drink and knows how much alcohol is in each glass while the one who gives the drinks is unaware of the amount of alcohol in each drink.