PSYCH 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Cherry Picking, Availability Heuristic, Psycinfo
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Chapter 2: sources of information: evaluating, finding, and reading information. The research vs. your experience: personal experience has no comparison group and is confounded. Co(cid:374)trolled resear(cid:272)h is (cid:271)etter tha(cid:374) e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e; e(cid:454); (cid:271)ush(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s (cid:272)atharsis stud(cid:455) Comparison group: enables you to compare what would happen both with and without the thing you ate interested in. E(cid:454): dr. rush"s (cid:271)loodletti(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d how he thought he was su(cid:272)(cid:272)essful (cid:271)ut he did not have an actual comparison group. Confound: several explanations for an occurrence; a confound occurs when you think that one thing caused an outcome but in fact other things have changed. Confederate: an actor playing a specific role for the experimenter (steve that criticizes e(cid:448)e(cid:396)yo(cid:374)e"s essays i(cid:374) the catha(cid:396)sis study: catharsis study: 3 groups; sit quietly, punch blank punching back, punch pu(cid:374)(cid:272)hi(cid:374)g (cid:271)ag (cid:449)ith ste(cid:448)e"s fa(cid:272)e o(cid:374) it. Probabilistic: research is probabilistic; research is meant to explain hopefully high proportion of possible cases.
