PSY 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Golden Rule, Hawthorne Effect, Informed Consent
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Experimental methods: manipulating one or more factors (iv) to observe the effect on an outcome (dv), while other variables held constant. Key characteristics: control group, random assignment- equal opportunity, high knowledge of causality, behavior change, artificial setting. Informed consent, debriefing, confidentiality: deception, withhold or conceal information, aim to minimize harm/ discomfort. Hawthorne effect: re-activity to research in response to awareness of observation. The golden rule: human research participants are an end unto themselves and not a mean to an end! Participants are going a favor by participating in our research.
