SOC 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Santa Barbara City College, Random Assignment, External Validity
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By random assignment to conditions, the most common method of establishing equivalence among the experimental conditions, and thus increasing internal validity. External validity refers to the degree to which partnerships can be expected to hold up once they are again evaluated in various ways and for different people. Meta-analysis can be used across many studies to determine the observed relationships between variables. 1. study the concepts of organizational, associational, and observer learning, and describe their similarities and differences. 2. explain how and when schemes and attitudes come about and do not change as a result of relocation and assimilation operations. 3. outline the ways schemas are likely to be preserved by the assimilation-creating process. Man has very large brains and highly developed cognitive abilities. Thus it will come as no surprise that we will mostly address the challenges we face in everyday life by learning about them and then deciding what to do with them.
