PSY102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Milgram Experiment, Random Assignment, Descriptive Statistics
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Population: entire group which one wants to make predictions. Sample: a subset of a population that is studied to make inferences about the population. To be able to generalize findings, sample mist be representative of the population. Mistakes can occur if your sample is biased. Solution: random selection: every person on the population has an equal chance of being chosen to participate ( not the same as a random assignment) Of the people in that experiment were willing to give an electric shock that could kill people if given the directions from a person in a position of power. Canadian ethical guidelines = tri-council policy statement. Informed consent: tell participants what they are getting into beforehand. Deception can be used under limited circumstances. Doesn"t negatively affect the rights of the participant. Research doesn"t involve medical or therapeutic intervention. Debriefing: inform participants what the study was about. Descriptive statistics: means of summarizing or organizing data.
