PSYCH 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Face Validity, Internal Validity, Psych
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Situational - situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge. - zimbardo. Participant or subject - what we gather for demographic information - read for meaning. Bystander effect - why do people get involved. Moderating - having to do with the characteristics of the people in the study. When you measuring the way you intend to measure it. Extent to which results can be generalized to other populations and settings. Ability to draw conclusions about causal relationships. Without causal claim - weak/no internal validity. Independent variable caused change in the dependent variable. Validity - are we measuring what we say we are measuring. Reliability - consistency or stability of a measure of behavior. Ture score - real score of the variable. Pearson product - moment correlation coefficient: ranges from 0. 00 to. Required elements of a true experiment - causation. Confounding variable: varies along with the independent variable.
