PSYB01H3 Lecture : Chapter notes
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Recall fr ch. 7: most research involves sampling research participants fr a pop of interest (composed of individuals of interest) Much research interested in testing hypotheses about behaviour: focus here: relationships btw variables being studied and testing predictions derived fr theories of interest. Manipulating the independent variable to manipulate, need to construct an operational definition (see ch. 4); convert conceptual var into set of operations (instructions, stimuli, events presented to participants) in addition, the iv and dv must be introduced within context of total experimental setting- called. 2 things to do: (1) provide participants with informed consent needed (2) explain why experiment is being conducted. Sometimes rationale = truthful; most of the time, you don"t want to tell participants the actual hypothesis : i. e. say your conducting test on memory (but actually conducted on specific aspect of memory. =dv) if you tell them truth, they may try to look good and try to confirm the hypothesis.
