PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Flip Book, Prefrontal Cortex, Agnosia

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Eg shirley brice stayed with 300 families observing differences between middleclass/lower class much they interacted with children. In psychology, descriptive/observational studies are usually the first step in a line of research. Or it can add as a part of a larger research. Correlational specifically examining how variables are related to each other, without manipulating any other variables. Eg linking depression and cell phone/computer use. However, it"s unclear what variables cause sleep deprive etc, Eg academic success doing better higher self esteem. But we don"t know if there are any other variables causing it. It allows researchers to make claims about associations between variables, but cannot make causal claims. The third variable problem specifically given to correlational studies. It occurs when researchers cannot manipulate the variable they believe is causing changes in another variable. Confound think of it as a third variable that youre not studying it seeks into your study.