PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Internal Validity, Bulgarian Lev
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Chapter 2: methodology: how social psychologists do research. These methods are of three types: observational method, correlational method, experimental method. Description: what is the nature of the phenomenon. Description: what is the relation between variable x and variable y. Description: is variable x a cause of variable y. The observational method: observational method: the technique whereby a researcher observes people and systematically records measurements of their behavior, describes what a particular group of people or type of behavior is, method varies according to the degree: one extreme, the observer neither participates nor intervenes in any way (ex. They also have to be sure that their independent and defendant variables are understood in the same way in different cultures. Through replication, researchers can study a given research question with maximal internal and external validity. Council policy are met: participants must be told that they can withdraw at any time, for any reason, without fear of consequences for doing so.
