PSYC 2030 Lecture Notes - Dependent And Independent Variables, Confounding, Experiment

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2030
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Content a way of obtaining knowledge that can be applied to all content areas. Can use this course (process) as a knowledge compatible with all other content (research areas) Critical thinking- it gives you a way of thinking about facts and testing them. The experimenter varies one or more variables while holding others constant. Experiment often conducted in artificial laboratory environment and may lack generalizability in the real world. The variable that the experimenter changes in order to see if or how it affects behaviour. The behaviour that"s measured to see if the independent variable had an effect. Extraneous variables- are variables that are not controlled and are of no interest to the researcher. They are not problematic as long as they are held constant. *think of the word extra as extra stuff that doesn"t matter* Confounding variable- its an uncontrolled extraneous variable that changes with the independent variable and can also affect the dependent variable.