PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Tunxis Community College, Behaviorism, Stereotype Threat

• School: Tunxis Community College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 111
• Professor: O'brien

Document Summary

Notes experiments a deliberated manipulation of variables to see weather corresponding changes in behavior result, allowing the determination of cause and effect many factors influence our behavior. Experiments manipulate factors that interest us while keeping other factors under control independent variable (iv) Variable that may change in response to manipulations. Subjects in an experiment who are subjected to the iv. Subjects in an experiment who are not subjected to the iv and who may receive a placebo treatment (controls for confounding variables) Assigning participation to experimental and control (conditions by random assignment minimizes pre-existing differences) between two groups. Tendency of the experimenter"s expectations for a study to unintentionally influence the results of the study. Neither the experimenter nor the subject know which subject are in the experimental or control group (reduces placebo effect and experimental effect). Not considered true experiments because of the inability to randomly assign participants to the experimental and control groups.