PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Dietary Supplement, Confounding, Tylenol (Brand)

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

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Confounding variable: a variable that interferes with the results. Independent variable is never controlled however everything else is controlled. There is no attempt to manipulate or control variable. Example: 40 fatigue can predict that the person is going to get around. With this graph! e d a r. 1. 00 perfect correlation. In these examples " means could lead to": with the correlation coefficient you cannot infer cause and effect, example: Low self- esteem depression. Distressing events or biological predisportion low selfesteem. Your behavior will cause the other person to behave in a certain way. Continuation of research of methods note from lecture #1. Note date: september 19th, 2012. Psych 1010: dr. jubis, section i. Experimenter bias: experimenter has a hypothesis which want to results to come out as they want. In other words the experiment conveys what the experimenter wants to see. Both experimenter and participant don"t know what the treatments are given to each participant.