PSYC 1100 Lecture 5: Experiment Examples
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Think about whether or not the facial expression really affects the mood. Cultural influence cartoons can be cultural and if you get them you get them. To what degree does your study/experiment mac on to events, going on, in the real world. Generalizability - we want it to be able to connect to other things. Confounds - an unintended second difference in your groups. Experimenter bias - when the experimenter has an effect, unintentionally, on the study. Participant bias - when you, the subject, think something is going to happen due to the manipulation around you. Heat applied to forearm (enough to be uncomfortable) Spinal neural activity reduced in placebo group. Single-blind studies - subjects do not know what group they are in. Double-blind studies - experimenter does not know what group the subjects are in. Protects against both experimenter and participant bias. Hypothesis: tv viewing is related to risk of death. Dunstan et al. used data from ausdiab.
