CSP 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Quasi, Psy, Random Assignment

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology
• Course: CSP 280
• Professor: Estrada

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There is also a direction in the experiment and you are able to define the problem so that we know what we are looking for and what to do and what you are talking about. Has focus groups: usually around 8 to 20 people and each provide opinions on research topics to get each person"s experience and an in-depth of their experiences. One on one interviews: people reporting on side effects of symptoms. Hypothesis: testable relationship between two constructs or variables however with human participants, you cannot prove a hypothesis is true; you try disconfirm and disprove all over hypothesis. Quasi: is an intermediate between correlational and experimental: observational research: what you start with when you don"t really understand the phenomenon and record their behaviors systematically; archival. Research: researchers are able to use already recorded behaviors. Correlation doesn"t show direction but can describe how two variables can be related.