PSY 1018 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Blind Experiment, Intelligence Quotient, Suggestibility

• School: St. John's University
• Department: PSY - PSYCHOLOGY
• Course: PSY 1018
• Professor: Farbman

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6/17/17 10:48 pm: how do psychologists study psychology, different methods that are used to study. The method you choose, is determined by your goal/aim what are you looking to find. Is a factor which one believes might influence an event: dependent variable. Is the event which was or was not influence by variation of the independent variable. You vary the independent variable, to see if it influences the dependent variable. Ex: does drinking have an influence on driving. Alcohol is the independent (the one that changes) The way they drive is the dependent (the one that does or does not get influenced: control: One should keep all of the thought to be possible influencing factors the same for all groups except for the independent variable. Must keep everything the same unless if you think it doesn"t affect the dependent variable: (each experimenter has to decide what he think will have an influence on the dependent variable or not)