PSYB01H3 Lecture Notes - Implicit-Association Test, Facial Expression, Electrodermal Activity
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Decisions to be made steps to conduct an experiment. Who to use as participants and how many. Example: effects of eye contact on perceptions of honesty in eye witnesses. Does not matter if the witness make eye contact with the juries; How many: a bigger sample is better up to a point. What is the point of cutting off: 30 per condition considered minimum. No knowing where the number coming from. This is the least number you have to have in each group. Who: convenience: most of the case; but the internet make things easier. If you are doing a thesis with someone have access to mass resources: snowball sample: you ask your friends to ask their friends and going on. Similarly, you sending email to friends for them to forward. Internet-based: but you will have little control over who will participate, but usually you would get broad range of ppl.
