PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Confounding, Quasi, Internal Validity

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: A.George Alder

Document Summary

Premise that knowledge is acquired observation. Assumes events governed by some kind lawful order. Constructs (some kind of underlying idea, ect = self esteem, confidence etc) Reported by others (objective; more accurate but not ideal) Galvanic skin response to measure anxiety; best measure, but not all constructs have physiological outcomes) Variable: any measurable condition, event, characteristic, or behaviour that is manipulated, controlled or observed. Tentative statement about relationship b/w two/more variables. Make something you can test through observation. A definition that describes the actions/operations made to measure/control a variable. Journals (peer reviewed are viewed by experts in that field prior to publication) People carefully & skeptically review results to ensure work is accurate. Research method where investigator manipulates variable under controlled conditions & observes if there is a change in second variable as well. Independent variable: condition/event that experimenter varies in order to assess its impact on another variable.