PSY 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Condom

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 250
• Professor: Quinton Wendy

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Beter quasi-experimental designs: three types of good ones! This group is going to add a control group. This isn"t a true control group (hence non-equivalent control group): invesigates diferences between groups not randomly assigned to condiions, the design is strengthened by adding both a control group (comparison group) and a pretest. Kyrychenko et al. (2006: invesigated efeciveness of hiv/aids educaion intervenion program. Things you could do to prevent partner condom negoiaing. Time series designs: interrupted time series: researcher makes several observaions (o) over ime prior to and immediately ater a treatment or event, ex. Time series designs (coninued: control series: variaion on its that involves including some kind of control group, ex: observe graii in two high schools, advantage over its = comparison group. When they came into the lab, they believed this study was about creaive ability, taking a test where they generate a variety of uses for items (ice, show laces, crayons).