PSYCH 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psych, Random Assignment, Confirmation Bias
22 Sep 2015
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Educational psych research: articles must be peer reviewed ( read and found of merit by an audience of multiple peers) not from newspapers or magazines (because they are not held to the same standards) Sample: who is being studied? (age, sex, context, demographic) Descriptive studies: (case studies, ethnographic) - observe an environment. Correlational studies: determine correlated data but does not find cause or effect. Independent variable: what you change: dependent variable: what you observe. Quasi-experimental: infer a cause and effect relationship but does not prove it. Measure: method for taking measurements of the variable of interest observation. Interviews ( structured or open ended ) test and surveys (self-reported data) Culture: set of behaviors that make a group coherent. Blue collar/ pink collar: traditionally male and female working class jobs.
