[PS102] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 134 pages long Study Guide!
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A means to collect data: cause and effect. Whether they affect each other at all: hypothesis. Seek to prove it wrong or right through experimentation. Multitasking negatively impacts grades whether people realize it or not. More gender stereotyped when it comes to ones own kids. Testing to see if it causes a difference. What the experimenter changes to see cause and effect results: dependent. Happens to one group but doesn"t happen to the other. Ex: testing 2 groups in different classes, computer screen in one group malfunctions and doesn"t work. This will affect the results in an unplanned way. One group has no heat in their classroom, the other does. Ones without heat are cold, don"t focus as well. Experimenter must be very careful to make sure the two groups are equivalent. The cure to this is random sampling/random assignment: experimenter bias: Experimenters like to see what they want to see.
