COGS 14A Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Rosenhan Experiment, Causal Inference, Field Experiment
12 Mar 2017
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Example: clark and hatfield studies of gender differences in sexual receptiveness. Stated goal was to see how people of different genders would respond to different levels of interest in a natural setting. Confederate asks one of the following questions: would you like to Observational studies suffer from a few specific issues. There may be ethical concerns over lack of free, informed consent. Observational studies (excluding field experiments), don"t allow for causal inferences and are strictly correlational. The presence of the observer may influence behavior, distorting the ecological validity of the data. May use covert observation, desensitization and habituation, or obscure the purpose of the study to avoid the issues. These are conscious or unconscious beliefs and preferences that may affect how dependent variables are recorded and interpreted. Can be reduced using objective recording devices and having research assistants blind to the hypothesis code the data. If concerned with ecological validity: naturalistic observations >participant observations > field exp> lab exp.
