PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Personality Psychology, Dependent And Independent Variables, Clinical Trial
21 May 2014
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Chapter 3 personality psychology as a science: research methods. Table 3. 2 partial data from hypothetical experiment on the effect of anxiety on test. Note: participants were assigned randomly to either the low-anxiety or high-anxiety condition, and the average number of correct answers was computed within each group. When all the data were in, the mean for the high-anxiety group was 15 and the mean for the low-anxiety group was 25. These results would typically be plotted as in figure 3. 1. Table 3. 3 partial data for a hypothetical correlational study of the relationships. Note: an anxiety score (denoted x) and a performance score (denoted y) are obtained from each participant. The results are then plotted in a manner similar to that shown in. Table 3. 4 effect sizes of some important research findings. People are aggressive when they are in a bad mood. The higher a person"s credibility, the more persuasive s/he will be. People behave as others expect them to behave.
