SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Artificiality, Treatment And Control Groups, The Control Group

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 1Z03
• Professor: Paul Glavin

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Variable: any characteristic or attribute that varies, e. g. gender, age, income, gender- can have more than one state=male or female, age-you can have multiple ages. Which of the following is not a variable: celcius, weight, iq, speed of light, gpa, speed of light is a constant variable, others have varied states. Independent variables (x: a variable that has an effect on another variable. Dependent variables (y: the outcome or the variable that is being caused by the iv, x causes y, ex. Relationship between gender and income in canada, men and women with different incomes: hypothesize that there is a causal relationship between gender and income. Independent variable-gender because men and women make different levels of income in. Extraneous variables (z: possible other variable that might account for the relationship between x and y, the bad variables we hope don"t exist, try to rule out these variables.