PSYC 2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Experiment, On Being, Observer-Expectancy Effect
29 Jan 2015
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Chapter 4 & 5 methods of measurement. Natural science: employs primarily experimental methodologies, form questions in terms of cause and effect. We are all in the same plane of observation"; pay attention that things that occur with frequency (isolate qualities of those events and give them names = variables) Variables: are events or conditions that you set up as experimenter, that you observe on a plane of. Experimenter, manipulates variable (iv) anything less than this is actually deemed as non- experimental*** (indicate whether it is true experiment or not) they think manipulation will have a change in dv. Not linear in any absolute sense, iv isn"t always the iv, dv isn"t always the dv (dependent on the event, the cause might actually be the event) Conditions (drug vs. placebo, time-limit vs. no time limit: which can take on 2 or more values. External (objective) definitions: phenomena from livedexperience, when asking someone directly you are understanding subjectively/internal.
