PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Internal Validity, Demand Characteristics, Psych
8 Sep 2020
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Hindsight bias: people"s tendency to be overconfident about whether they could have predicted a given outcome, knew it all along . Participant observation: observing from a close range. Archival research: looking at evidence from archives such as police reports, sport statistics, newspaper articles, etc. Correlational research: is there a relationship between the variables, correlation causation, no random assignment, -1 to 0 to +1, negative and positive correlations, negative = decreases, positive = increases. Longitudinal study: study in which people are studied at two points in time. Self-selection: a problem that arises when the participant, rather than the investigator, selects his or her level on each variable, investigator has no control over the degree of a particular participant"s score on a given variable. Child choses how much time they watch tv. Independent variable: manipulated variable, hypothesized to be the cause of a particular outcome.
