Sociology 2206A/B Chapter Notes -Oscar Lewis, Psych, Social Stigma
26 Apr 2014
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Because interested in long term things and things we can"t change about people sexual orientation, gender, income, race. Because involve manip of ppl aware that it may cause serious harm to the people. Interested in the way something impacts someone"s life. Experimental or treatment group: receives a treatment or manipulation of some kind. Control group: does not get the treatment or manipulation. Random assignment: participants are placed in the experimental or control group using a random method. Pre-test: measurement of the dependent variable before the experimental manipulation. Post-test: measurement of the dependent variable after the experimental manipulation. After we manipulated, should see differences between them if worked out. (showed classical experimental design in text) Wanted to look at teachers expectations and childrens development. Teachers expectations have a lot to do with development. Iq test on both grps of children to see no difference between the grps. Tested both children again and found what expected.
