PSYC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: General Social Survey, Baby Talk, Dependent And Independent Variables
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Attitudes toward violence were the same between southerners and northerners. But there were differences in statements in response to threats to home and family. More tendency for crime of passion in the south than the north. The sex study uses data from the general social survey. Millennials expected to have less sexual partners than baby boomers. Strength: 1 (perfect relationship) to 0 (no relationship) Direction: positive(both change in same direction) or negative(change in opposite directions. 1 on 1 chat is better than family talk for babies. Baby talk is actually better than regular talk for babies for them to have a greater word production. Intentionally causing a change in some variable in order to test effects on an outcome. An umbrella term used to describe the set of theoretical accounts of how people assign causes to the events around them.