PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2.1: Broad Group, Hawthorne Effect

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

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Believed that listening to classical music would make you smarter. Governor of georgia put ,000 in purchasing and distributing classical music to students and pregnant women in efforts of improving grades. This intervention was based on one small study, that was not reproducible by other researchers: the study was actually talking about improving spatial intelligence (looking at objects and mentally replicating them) which is different than general intelligence. This event can be used to understand the importance of being scientifically literate. Keeping emotions and individual opinions separate from research. Focusing only on testable and scientifically proven information. There should be no relationship or effect from the researcher to the data being produced. However, there is always room for variability, like in between different scales. These are large portions of the population: selecting the right sample is important, which is why it preferred they are random samples, where each participant has an equal opportunity of being included and have different characteristics.