PSYC 3300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Meta-Analysis, Paq, Falsifiability
10 Feb 2014
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Chapter 2 notes: methods and history of gender research. Empiricism: information collected via one of our major senses, usually sight. Theory: an abstract generalization that provides an explanation for a set of facts for a theory to be scientific, it must be falsifiable sex is referred to as a subject variable. Stimulus or target variable: the characteristic of something to which people respond. Ex: if people are responding to an infant"s sex, sex is the stimulus variable. Weakness: internal validity cannot determine cause and effect. Internal validity: being confident you are measuring the true cause of the effect. Field experiments: experimental method is taken into the real world or the field attempt to maximize bot internal and external validity. Cross sectional design: when a single time point is used. Longitudinal study: measuring the independent variable at one time and the dependent variable later. Multiple time points in the study help distinguish age or cohort effects.
