PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Impression Management, Subliminal Stimuli, Ingratiation
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When you base studies tested on university students on the entire population. The most powerful tool and can even cause spontaneous remission. We have the power to sometimes think ourselves healthy. Your immune system seems to function better when you are optimistic. Refers to a situation where let"s say you have questionnaires. A, b, c, d and e. those previous questionnaires are going to affect how people answer: if you"ve seen ten people before you answer yes, you might feel inclined to answer. Experimenter bias, when the experimenter makes error to favour their hypothesis. It may be conscious or unconscious but nevertheless, when making mistakes it favours their hypothesis. This is why when people conduct studies, they hire research assistants to punch in the numbers. Double-blind procedure, don"t want to tell people what the hypothesis is. People testing the subjects, putting in the numbers might also not be told of hypothesis to prevent tampering with the data.
