PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Final Guide: Blind Experiment, Central Tendency, Smart-1

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Julie Dowsett

Document Summary

Self-fulfilling prophecy: because you have this belief about the other person and so you behave toward them in a certain way as a result of your belief or expectation. Your behaviour will affect the behaviour of the other person. This person will behave in a certain way that will confirm your expectations. Experimenter bias: the experimenter has a certain expectation, you expect the subject to behave a certain way. You may be behaving toward the subject in a way that they pick up on it and will behave in that way. To minimize this from happening: minimize contact/interaction with the subject experimenter is blinded and subject is blind- double blind procedure. Statistics: descriptive statistics-describe the characteristics of your data. Measures of central tendency: is there one number that best describes the middle score in a wide array of scores (mean, median, mode)