CCJS 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Observer-Expectancy Effect, Content Analysis, Factor Analysis
17 Dec 2015
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Prison study , milgram"s obedience to authority: advantages, non reactivity. Unobstructive measures (25q, 2l, 7h, 16lh: unobstructive measures nonreactive methods of gathering data; means of obtaining information in which respondents are not aware of being studied. Originally from a book titled unobtrusive measures: nonreactive. Research in the social sciences by webb, campbell, schwartz, and. Sechrest 1966: physical trace analysis physical trace analysis is the study of deposits, accretion of matter, and other indirect substances produced by previous human interaction . This includes evidence" such as dna, blood, all that cool csi" and. Error may be seen as a kind of invalidity, and the sources of potential eeor or invalidity are always present! How can we deal with the issues of validity and reliability. )validity asks the question does my measuring instrument [a question, a set of questions, an entire survey] in fact measure what it claims to measure? measurement.
