PSY 2114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Heritability, Random Assignment, Dependent And Independent Variables

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2114
• Professor: Wendy Lee

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Lecture 2: research methods and biological foundations, jan 20th, 2016. Overview: research methods, genes and the environment, from conception to birth, research methods. A systematic way of finding the right answers to questions or problems that includes standards of sampling, procedure, and measures: identify a research question & 2. Whether violent tv shows cause children to be more violent. Related to or influences the dependent variable. In experiments, it is the variable that is manipulated. Depends on, is related to, or is influenced by the iv. In experiments, dv is observed after iv is manipulated. Allows inferences about causes/effects to be drawn. Typically involves assigning participants randomly to groups; so it"s not a bias study; have equal numbers of people who are more/less sociable, come from diff families. ; ex. where tv was newly introduced to a town (measured factors before introduction vs. after vs. to other towns with tv)