PSYC 3310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Internal Validity, Summative Assessment, Fundamental Attribution Error

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3310
• Professor: Jennifer Dobson

Document Summary

An intervention may be defined as a strategy (or procedure) that is intended to influence the behavior of people for the purpose of improving their functioning with respect to some social or practical problem. Personal interventions are those that people carry out in the course of their daily lives, that is, when they use their knowledge of social psychology to improve their own circumstances or those of people around them. Programmatic interventions, which commonly are referred to simply as programs. A program is an organized collection of activities designed to reach certain objectives . Trial interventions are those that are implemented to determine whether the interventions, as designed, in fact have the intended positive consequences. These are also known as program efficacy studies. There are two basic kinds of trial interventions. One is when researchers design a study to test out a possible intervention strategy.