PSYC 3480 Lecture 2: Lecture 2 - Women's psych.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3480
• Professor: Noreen Stuckless

Document Summary

Research that is reliable: it can be duplicated. Valid it measures what it is supposed to measure internal validity: generable external validity. Research and post-menstrual hormones use-handout: when good research goes bad: first sample group was younger, healthier, had better hearts. You want to make sure that what we are talking about is related to the topic. You have to be very careful about how you ask questions when you do research: example - handout, stuckless, n. (2001), a simple lesson in item validity: Question about if men/women fear their ex partner. Qualitative question which helped explain the answer. Meaning of fear- women were talking about physical fear, men had fear of being embarrassed, not seeing their children: operational definition. Men and women had different definitions were different: findings were flawed because of this. Experimentor expectations: we have to be careful not to imply to the sample persons what we expect from our research.