PSY 2114 Lecture 2: PSY2114_Lecture 2_Chapter 2

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2114
• Professor: Wendy Lee

Document Summary

Systematic way of finding the right answers to questions or problems that includes standards of sampling, procedure, and measures: identify a research question. Does watching violent tv affect children"s level of aggression: hypothesis: plausible, empirically testable, falsifiable. Watching violent tv makes children choose violent toys: choose a research design. Related to or influences the dependent variable. In experiments, it is the variable that is manipulated. Causes changes in the dv or. Predicts changes in the dv or. Depends on, is related to, or is influenced by the iv. In experiments, dv is observed after iv is manipulated: iv: number of hours spent watching violent tv. Dv: the level of aggression based on the toys chosen. Two groups, manipulate the iv into which group watched the violent tv. The expose both to toys and observe what happens. Uni-tel: a town with one tv channel. Multi-tel: a town with multiple tv channels.