PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psy, Random Assignment, Longitudinal Study
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Chapter one lecture notes: systematic observation, naturalistic observation-where the behavior naturally happens, structured observation, occurs in a laboratory, all participants have an equal chance to display behavior. Self-reports and interviews: self-reports- subjects self-report, clinical interview- counseling setting, structured interview- may use questionnaires; may question groups, same questions, same way. Clinical/case study- brings together a wide range of information on one person: interviews, observations, test scores. Ethnography- goal is to understand a culture or social group: general research, correlational- reveals relationships between variables, experimental- allows cause-and-effect statements. Independent and dependent variables: independent- expected to cause changes in another variable, the variable being changed, dependent- experimenter measures, but doesn"t manipulate. Random assignment- researchers use unbiased procedure to assign participants to treatment conditions. Psy 100- intro to psychology: cross-sectional- differing groups studied at the same time, sequential- several similar cross-sectional or longitudinal studies at varying times.
