PSYB01H3 Lecture : Chapter notes
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Generalizing to other populations of research participants even though researcher randomly assignment participants to conditions rarely are they picked fr the general population: most available course to satisfy a general education requirement) : college student (specifically freshmen and sophomores in intro psychology. participants may also be fr particular uni/college, be mostly f or m, certain culture. Smart found: college student were studied in over 70% of the articles published btw 1962-64 in the. Journal of experimental psychology and journal of abnormal and social psychology; sim result for. Problem: such studies use highly restricted population (sop/fresh mentioned above: they tend to be very young and possess charac of later adolescence. sense of self-identity is still developing, soc/pol attitudes still in flux, peer approval need, unstable peer relationships; also intelligent, high cog skill etc: people in general not necess have all these characteristics. Also see unrepresentation in animals---i. e. most animal research relies on white rats (cheap, easy, lab adaptive)
