PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pilot Experiment, Participant Observation

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Jill Bee Rich

Document Summary

Consists of a set of written questions that are used to determine our beliefs, our attitudes and. Typically, the surveys are anonymous so people don"t know who you are and one can be honest. People may not understand the exact context of the question. A mini study to alter possible errors in the study when the full-fledged study occurs: need a very large sample of people. With a larger amount of people, errors are weeded out. In order to generalize from the sample to the population, the sample must be representative of the population. Each person in the population has an equal chance of being chosen for this sample: problems occur if only 200 of 1000 people send back though because then there"s a bias. Used to describe people behaviour as they are behaving in a natural setting. It is noted that you want to minimize subject reactivity (subject-researcher contact: avoid eye-contact, hiding/recording, blend into the situation (participant observation)