PSYC 201W Lecture Notes - Confounding, Random Assignment, Observational Error
4 Aug 2013
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Project proposals and ethics forms are due next week. Getting 5 articles to incorporate to your rationale. Prior research to support your claims, your hypothesis and your research project. Midterm exam (multiple choice: 50-60 questions) in two weeks. Sign up for tutorial collection groups during labs that week too. Material not covered in lecture but in textbook is your responsibility and will be on the midterm. Lab material is closely related to lecture material. Three approaches to research: naturalistic observation, experimental and. Decisions to make when running field studies: participant observers vs. Does not mean naturalistic observation is poor research, it is simply a different kind of research that yields different types of conclusions. *different approaches to research will yield different conclusions and ultimately different statements that we can make to the relationship of variables: experiments: the parable hypothetical example of coming up with the cure for the common cold:
