PS270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Demand Characteristics, Dependent And Independent Variables, Self-Reference
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Social behavior, feelings, thoughts of individuals: 2. Role of cognitive processes, why does it happen: 4. **the scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another. Typically we emphasize the power of the situation. Why does the situation leave to a certain behavior. Hypothesis: statement about how two or more variables are thought to relate to one another. In a causal hypothesis, a statement about how one variable is expected to affect a second variable: e. g. , increases in exposure to media violence leads to increases in aggression. Independent variable (iv): the presumed cause (in a causal hypothesis, watching media violence. Dependent variable (dv): the presumed effect (in a causal hypothesis, behaviour of people watching. In experimental iv is manipulated dv is measured. Correlational research: can reveal whether changes on one variable co-occur with changes on a second variable, e. g. , correlational study relating class attendance to g. p. a, cannot reveal if variables cause/effect eachother.
