SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes -Spurious Relationship, Dependent And Independent Variables, External Validity
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Hume said no matter how many observations you make, you can"t observe your next observation; this is the problem of induction (328) Explanation = account of the causal logic that shows how and why variables influence each other (330) Spurious relationship = incorrect inference about causal relationship between variables (330) Causal relationship = change or variation in one variable causes change or variation in a second variable (331) Understanding = the ability to provide a definition of a situation that members of a culture find authentic and valid (331) Experiments = controlled tests of causal effects of a particular variable on a dependent variable (333) Randomization = a procedure used in experiments to assign test subjects to experimental conditions on the basis of chance (334) External validity = the degree to which experimental findings remain valid in different contexts (336) Hawthorne effect = people sometimes change their behavior when they"re aware they"re being studied (336)
