PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Confounding, Blind Experiment, Stra

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

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All the group member, the average of each groups should be equal in terms of their experiment . and their expectation. Placebo group: whenever the drug studies a special group get a sample which is not the real sample . Placebo effect is an special type of control group that is used control for subject expectation that could affect the results , drug related studies where people might have the strong expectation about the drug effect. If the hypo doesn"t match to your results go one step back ] Cofounding :is the variable that interferes with results and it effects the d. v so you don not know whether the results are caused by the i. v or by the other confounding variable. Cause i. v -)d. v effects or the confounding effects d. v. Ex: for the second time of study we make half of the each groups sleeping to be equal regarding to the hours of sleep.