CMNS 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Stanford Prison Experiment, Hawthorne Effect, External Validity
28 Nov 2017
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Reporting styles have changed: partipcipants were named in the past, now they are usually anonymous. Random way to decide of the total group who would be prison guards and who would be prisoners. Research in which one intervenes or does something to one group of people but not to another and then compares the result for the two groups. Treatment what the independent variable: thing that is theorized to cause a change. Pretest measurement of dependent variable prior to the treatment: you have experiment group and control group; measure both groups before you administer the treatment. Post-test you measure the results after administering the treatment. Dichotomous variable a variable that has only two attributes. In both natural sciences and social sceines, most conventional type of experiment involve three major pairs of components. Double-blind experiment neither experimenter or subjects know which group is which (control or experimental: designed to deal with validity issues.
