PSC 41 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Railways Act 1921, Dependent And Independent Variables, Intelligence Quotient

• School: UC-Davis
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSC 41
• Professor: Vazire

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Any characterisic or quality that varies: something that we measure or manipulate, variables must vary! > there must be more than one value that you can have of that variable. Iq test, looking at behavior and interpreing performance. Self-report measures: ask the paricipant to report on their aitudes, beliefs, feelings, memories, etc. > taking answers at face value > there is no right or wrong answers. Some variables are measured in categories: variable: gender. Levels: male, female: levels in quality or kind, levels are group labels or words, ex. Let/right handed, undergrad/grad student, what state are you from? (several categories) Some variables are measured coninuously: variable: time. Values: in milliseconds: values vary in quality or amount (may be truly coninuous or discrete, values are numbers along a scale. Paricipant variables: pre-exising characterisics, individual diferences of the paricipants, not under experimenter"s control, paricipants are grouped according to their level or value, ex.