PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Homicide, Social Desirability Bias, Parenting Styles
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Assignment 2: writing a critique including strengths and weaknesses + conclusion about which side you choose to be true/better. As a group, you come to a decision that supports a riskier choice. Familiarity is importance and you will prefer familiar things more than new. Correlational methods knowing the relationship between 2 variables is important in order to determine the actual correlation: no determination of causation, third variable, authoritative parenting vs. authoritarian/permissive parenting styles. Structured observation the researcher cues the behaviors they want to observe and then record it: takes place in labs, your creating an artificial experiment in an environment. Archival analysis analysis of pre-existing documents; have to code your data. Meta-analysis literature review of data from several studies. Survey methods collect data from participants of a sample studying different topics and record what people are feeling, thinking, etc: social desirability bias responding in a way that allows others to judge them favorably.
