SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ice Cream Van, Western Electric, Hawthorne Effect

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

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Using particular methods is beneficial as it can be replicated. Research methods: methods for testing casual relationships between phenomena, variable: any characteristic or attribute that varies eg. gender, age, income (you can have multiple ages) Quiz question: which of the following is not a variable? a)celsius b)weight: iq d)speed of light (such variable does not change, gpa. A variable that has an effect on another variable (causes something to change: dependent variables (y) The outcome or the variable that is being caused by the iv (casual relationship between gender (iv) and income (dp): extraneous variables (z) Possible other variable that might account for the relationship between. X and y (negative variables which might be the result between x and y) Temporal order (need to be able to prove that x exists before y: 2. Co-variation (association or correlation) there is a pattern in which they move together.