PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Anxiety Disorder, Postpartum Depression, Asperger Syndrome
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The method that you are using to explore your research questions or explore your research. Stating a relationship between an independent variable (iv or x) and dependent variable (dv or y) Educated guess about answer to research question(s) that you can systematically find support for. To determine whether going to war causes ptsd, to make a thing about causality ethical. Avoid sampling bias: experimenter bias: because an experimenter is bias to wanting to find a certain result if it is not random they will pick a sample that goes towards their hypothesis not ethical, Limits research: self-selection bias: choosing to be in the study for reasons that are not general in comparison to the entire population, science coded journalism: use scientific data to help their journalism but the data isn"t accurate. Maybe it"s their belief in the treating working bias.