PSY220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Truism, Random Assignment, Norm (Social)
18 Dec 2016
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I mean opposites attract/ you cant teach an old dog (cid:374)e(cid:449) tri(cid:272)ks (cid:271)ut fore(cid:448)er truis(cid:373) out there is a(cid:374)other truis(cid:373) that is (cid:272)o(cid:373)pletely opposite (cid:894)(cid:271)irds of a feather flock together/ you never too old to learn. ) To find which generalized observation applies in which particular situations. Naturalist/participant observation: simple observations made without intervention/imbedding inside group (imbed in a end of the world cult) Field studies: a study not in the lab, but in the real world. (usually with a confederate) Archival research: analyzing pre-existing data to answer a question. Correlational research: establishing correlations/ which do not produce casual claims. Quasi-experiments: taking advantage of pre-existing groups, again no random assignment, so cannot make a casual claim. Internal vs external validity: internal means the establishment of a casual claim, external speaks to the degree to which the claims can be generalized to everyday conditions (outside the laboratory conditions)
