SOCPSY 3Y03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Internal Validity, Dependent And Independent Variables, Systematic Review

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 3Y03
• Professor: Meridith Griffin

Document Summary

A strategy or procedure intended to influence the behaviour of people for the purpose of improving their functioning". Can be conducted at different levels of analysis. Individuals are required to change, no matter the level. Personal interventions: using your own knowledge to improve your life. Programmatic interventions: activities directed towards addressing a social/practical problem w the object of reducing/eliminating its negative consequences. Trial interventions: implemented to determine whether the intervention has the intended positive consequences it set out to have (a. k. a. program efficacy studies) Pilot program: smaller scale, organization determines effectiveness before settling on a more permanent/wide scale program. Identify the existence and severity of a social problem. Issue is defined by stakeholders (those with vested interest) Differing perspectives, may not agree on what the most pressing issue is. Find if effective interventions already exist - literature review needed. Create intervention hypotheses - if-then" statements that summarize the intervention and their expected outcomes.