PSY 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Statistical Inference, Stanford Prison Experiment, Ecological Fallacy
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The stroop test: calisthenics for the brain: read the color of the ink; trying to correlate between the color of the word and the actual word. Simple and direct manipulations: an independent variable provides a simple, direct, and straightforward manipulation. How reliable is this effect: theoretical construct of attention. Covert and indirect manipulations: facial feedback hypothesis facial movements by themselves can reenact particular emotional feelings and that these emotional feelings can be treated by simply. Tricking a person into making specific facial contractions. Controlling confounds: three techniques to control confounds, randomization, hold constant a variable or feature of an experiment that could influence the results. Identifying or selecting which variables are to be controlled for or held constant can be challenging. Matched-pairs design: matched-pairs design creating pairs of participants that are matched on a variable that is strongly related to the dependent variable.
