SOCPSY 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Collectively Exhaustive Events, Second Cup, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 2K03
• Professor: Paul Glavin

Document Summary

Immigrants are hardworking": with an experiment, ask participants to review job applications and manipulate pr status. Outline: conceptualization, operationalization choices, criteria for measurement quality, example (glavin and young 2017) Indicators can be classified depending on their dimension: dimension: a specifiable aspect or facet of a concept, religiosity may have several dimensions: ritual, belief, devotional. Interchangeability of indicators: despite there being different indicators for one concept, they should generally behave the same way if the concept is observed. From concepts to observations: conceptualization, operationalization, observation, example: religiosity, attendance, closeness to god, frequency of prayer, how many times did you attend, how close do you feel, how many times a week do you. Operationalization choices: defining variables and attributes, two necessary characteristics of a variable, 1) the attributes linked to a variable should be exhaustive, 2) attributes should be mutually exclusive. Levels of measurement examples: letter grades (a, b, c, d, etc. )