PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Confounding, Social Desirability Bias, Operational Definition
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Curiosity; skepticism; open-mindedness darley and latane (kitty murder: 38 bystanders, nobody called the police) Two approaches to understanding behavior: hindsight (after-the-fact) problem: related past events can be explained in many creative, reasonable, and sometimes contradictory, understanding through prediction, control, and theory building. Operational definition: defines a variable in terms of the specific procedures used to produce or measure it. Social desirability bias: the tendency to respond in a socially acceptable manner rather than according to how one truly feels and behaves (change the working would be the best solution) Unobtrusive measures: record behavior in a way that keeps participants unaware that certain responses are being measured. Archival measures: records or documents that already exist. Methods of research: descriptive research: seeks to identify how humans and other animals behave, particularly in natural settings. Case study: in-depth analysis of an individual, a group, or an event.
