SOCIOL 2D06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Voluntary Childlessness, Childlessness, List Of Statistical Packages
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Methodological approaches in sociological social psychology: part ii. Sociological social psychology employs both experimental and non-experimental forms of research. Experimental - control and test group; scientific. Involves the use of control and test groups. Pilot testing the research before going through with it to give you comparative time intervals (t1, t2 => comparison of data results) Random assignment into control and test groups. To maintain the integrity of the study. Experimental research: a case study in sociological social psychology. O"brien and hummbert"s 2006 study of a senior moment or a self-fulfilling prophecy? (casey, 2006) Conducted memory test (word recall) on older individuals. Presented with a list of words and then it was taken away; they were then told to recall or write down the words that they had recently seen. When competing against older individuals (those over 70), participants could only recall 12 words.