SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dependent And Independent Variables, Hawthorne Effect
10 Dec 2016
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Variable: any characteristic or attribute that varies. Which of the following is not a variable: celcius, weight, iq, speed of light, gpa. Independent variables (x) a variable that has an effect on another variable. Dependent variables (y) the outcome or the variable that is being cause by. Extraneous variables (z) possible other variables that might account for the relationship between x and y the iv: the thing that is doing the causing must happen before the thing is. Non-spuriousness: what your observing moves together (correlation on its own it, we want the absence of spuriousness (presence of a third variable. Co-variation (association or correlation) but: correlation is not causation doesn"t mean that their causally related) that is doing the causing when we have something that likes like a causal relationship but there"s a third variable. Spuriousness when an apparently causal relationship between two.
