PSYC 217 Lecture 2: Week 13 Lecture Notes - 2
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Other experimental settings (experimenters running a study). One experimental setting may not generalize to experimental settings. Interaction effects between participant and experimenter a big factor: psychosocial effects, biosocial effects. The real world - studies that resembler real world = high ecological validity. Mundane realism = when the situation resembles something that one would experience one everyday life. In lab setting: tell participants about genetic/environmental explanation for crime. Ask them how guilty they think some perpetrator would be. Provide realistic case report with explanation for crime. Ask participants to pass judgment on perpetrator in case report. College sophomore problem - already discussed this. Solution - collect samples outside of college, and statistically analyst whether their responses are different. Demonstrable differences between males and females (psychological literature on other sexes still lacking) Males and females may interpret variables differently, or respond differently. Solution: include both males and females as participants to analyze responses (look for interactions)
