PSYC 2360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Demand Characteristics, Social Desirability Bias, Research Question
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Ideas to innovation operationally defining dv definitions of our key terms. First, you want to develop clear, concise and repeatable conceptual. An existing definition from a credible source is useful because the definitions validity has been already established. Good self-report measures ask multiple questions (participants can then provide thoughts indicating how much they agree with each statement on a. Hypothesis-guessing: this occurs when the participant actively attempts to: if the participant don"t know which questions are the real ones, they will have a harder time figuring out the study"s true purpose. True test of a person"s belief focuses on what the person does, rather than. Self-report benefit: directly asking participant about their feelings in a quick and simple fashion, but has downside of participant being less than truthful. Multigroup design: an experimental design with three or more groups: allows us to have multiple levels of independent variable.