PSYC 2017 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Meta-Analysis
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No other explanations must exist for the effect: the psychological experiment, the objective observation of phenomena that are made to occur in a strictly controlled situation in which one or more factors are varied and the others are kept constant. (zimney, 1961, the objective observation. Ability to manipulate variables: disadvantages of the experimental approach, does not test effect of nonmanipulated variables age, weather, etc, artificiality, inadequate method of scientific inquiry, experimental research settings, field experimentation, laboratory experimentation, internet experiments. Ways of categorizing research approaches: experimental versus descriptive, experimental identifies cause and effect, descriptive describes some phenomenon, quantitative versus qualitative, quantitative collects numerical data, qualitative collects non numerical data like pictures, clothing worn, interview statements, nonexperimental quantitative research. 0 1: used for prediction, limitation cannot identify causality third variable problem correlation between two variables due to some third variable, third variable problem heatherton and colleges (1997, greater concern with being thin is correlated with more weight gain.
