PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Random Assignment, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 005
• Professor: Fulmer

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Steps in research: (after you develop a theory) Disseminate the results: make them aware to people even outside of the field of social psych so that people are aware of your findings. Try to isolate a cause for a difference in behavior that you see. Manipulate one variable (independent variable) (one group has one thing happen to them and another group has a different thing happen to them) then you measure the effect (dependent variable) In smoke coming through room experiment, independent it takes people to go get help. To make sure the independent variable is the cause of the dependent variable was how many people there were in the room. Smoke is part of the procedure to create a helping situation, but that"s not manipulated, that"s just procedure. One thing that"s different is whether you"re alone or in a group. variable, you have to make sure everything else about the experiment is the same for each group.