PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Operational Definition, Dependent And Independent Variables, Scientific Method

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Chris Motz

Document Summary

Correlation studies (observation and measurement without manipulation) questionnaires to collect data (like last class with the satisfaction of life/perceived stress). Have to keep everything else controlled (temp, noise, etc) so it"s consistent between participants. Will mood have effect on environmental altruism (ex good feelings towards the environment). Then show puppies and kittens to up the mood, then see if environ. Then depress another group"s mood by looking at sad things and test the environmental altruism again. **if you have to depress someone"s mood, at the end of the study, you have to bring them up to where they were. Have to be ethically sensitive** also need a control group usually to be able to determine if the testing work, if things changed. Manipulating a variable and measuring the impact of that manipulation on another variable change/adjust something. Then look at the effect of that change on something else. Get rid of some of them, then train the rest.