PSY309H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Retrospective Memory, Operational Definition, Dependent And Independent Variables
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Does status make people less compassionate: ask about income, their occupation, perhaps their geographical area, or randomly assign them a higher status like interviewee. Variable- anything that varies like gender, age, time. Constant- typically variable- but in the study lets say everyone is 30 and male. Operational definition: defines a construct (like love)- so you could operationalize it by measuring hear rate) Independent variable: manipulated- if manipulated by researcher- like make participant anxious, give them high status, participant- already present, like age, gender. For correlational use predictor and outcome because it is not an experiment. For experimental we use manipulated iv and dv. For quasi- the participant iv and dv- already present, not changed by experimenter. Self report: describe self like using a survey- describe how happy you are, experience sampling: kind of like a daily diary, people with trait mindfulness tend to have lower anxiety, pros and cons:
