PSY 210 Lecture 2: PSY210 Lecture 2
22 Aug 2016
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Control all other variables: correlational study. Important distinction: correlation does not imply causation, true experiment: Meta analysis: the collective analysis of two or more previous studies correlated. Directionality problem - not sure if a causing b or b causing a. Third variable problem not sure if third variable is causing a and b. Ethics of research: minimize risk to participants, informed consent, right to privacy, right to debriefing, the deception problem. Human thinking: in an effort to process very large quantities of social information quickly, we have developed cognitive shortcuts that work much of the time, but leave us open to predictable errors in judgment. Schema: mental frameworks centering around a specific theme that help us to organize social information, schemas affect. People assuming certain races are prone to crime, so paying attention to those people. People into astrology who seek out data to prove their preconceptions about certain groups of people.
