[PS102] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (360 pages long!)
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The science of psychology statistics ps102 - c. Identifying what happens in the context: naturalistic: A psychologist engages in naturalistic observation by going to a natural environment and watches social interactions. Limitation: waiting naturally for an event to happen, observer bias: laboratory: Bring subject into lab and watch from behind glass without intervening. Bringing in people that are targeted for particular kinds of behaviors. Limitation: loss of spontaneity, observer bias: case studies: Describes a particular group in a particular fixed setting doing certain tasks. Limitation: limited sample size, low generalizability, observer bias. Hawthorn effect: if you are in a study and know you"re being watched, you change the way you would normally behave. We cannot make direct assumptions for cause and effect. The subject tested to see if it causes any difference. Hypothesis does answering why questions while studying from text improve grades? . A means to collect data: cause and effect. Whether they affect each other at all: hypothesis.
