Psychology 2660A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Equity Theory, Face Validity, Internal Consistency

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2660A/B
• Professor: Natalie J Allen

Document Summary

Tenacity (sticking with something)/ habit: eg. tying your shoe. Scientific approaches to knowing: primary research methods. Lab experiments: laboratory settings: artificial environments in which phenomena of interest do not normally occur but only do because the researcher created them. Generalizability: the conclusions of a study (results) can be extended to other groups of people, organizations, settings or situations. Lab studies: cannot be certain that the results will hold or organizational settings. More dissimilar the study to the organization setting (conditions and subjects) less confidence of generalizability. Field studies: if groups of objects might not have the same results in other places or with other groups or subjects. Control: procedures that allow researcher to rule out certain explanations for results other than the hypotheses they wish to test. Control group: collection of people who receive a condition or manipulation different from the one of interest.