PSYC 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Desirability Bias, Phi Coefficient, Nonverbal Communication
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An organized set of beliefs, knowledge, and assumptions that relate to understanding a phenomenon. General claims about how stuff happens and you test them in empirical settings and gain higher or lower confidence in those theories. Any characteristic or attribute that varies (gender, income, empathy, satisfaction, stress) The process of translating abstract concepts into concrete, observable manifestations so they can be studied. For construct, there is an infinite number of operationalization. Investigate relations between variables difficult to observe and things that are unethical or unrealistic for true experiments. There"s a social desirability bias to look good to the person asking the question. Only 12. 1% of men admit to domestic abuse when surveyed by psychologists. Say to count how many times people say something sweet, neutral, and mean to each other over 5 minutes. John gottman measured couple"s non-verbal communication (e. g. , how much they move in the chair/couch) Gives you great detail and you are measuring very relevant variables.
