PSY 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Legal Drinking Age, Dependent And Independent Variables, Informed Consent
Monday, January 15th, 2018
Research Methods:
• Questio of What is a go up? fo letue
o What are some things we might want to do with the raw data?
▪ List, add groups/ common traits
▪ Categories
o What are things we could do according to what Arnett has said about EA?
▪ Itepet hethe it’s eal; hat people thik of it
o What are qualitative or quantitative ways we could interpret this data?
▪ Get rid of outliers → with little kids, answers can be various, making data
collection more difficult
▪ Quantitative:
• Express in stats how many people have a common idea of being grown
up out of # of participants
▪ Qualitative:
• Interpretation of common traits
• What can you do to these responses?:
o How can you quantify them?
o How can you analyze them?
▪ What is your university year? (1-4, other)
▪ Do you have a major? (No and nervous → yes and confident)
▪ Do you feel like an adult? (Scale of x to y)
o You could count to check frequency
o You could check the crosstabs (how one answer type pans out against another type)
o You can also correlate the answers (if there is a relation)
o Analyze whether your findings are significant
o What could we do to improve this study?
• Is there a theory of emerging adults?
o Do we know what behaviours ad fatos ifluee eegig adulthood’s deelopet
o Poal ould’t ephasize iolog
o Would emphasizes economy, changing social norms, familial upbringing, changes in
values, etc
• Are there any laws concerning emerging adulthood?
o Strongly proven statemets aout ost EA’s?
o Seem to be demographically distinct
• What is our Hypothesis?
o What is the variable that influences the other?
• What uestios do ou hae aout EA’s?
Wednesday, January 17th, 2018
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Document Summary
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