PSYC 308 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Statistical Inference, Prefrontal Cortex, Descriptive Statistics
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Studies in lab may not be very realistic. An effect in the lab may not be present in the real world. I. e. can you create a media campaign that actually works in increasing recycling. To extent in which results can be generalized to the population. replication; can the study be replicated in different labs, in different places. However, some people say that the psychological process is the same within everyone. To avoid the weird problem we need to have system-level changes; We need to be cautious of generalizing of college sample to overall population. Research agencies need to pay attention to generalizing issues. When reading a paper, be aware of generalization issues. Medial prefrontal cortex gets activated when we think about ourselves, but doesn"t have as much activity when thinking about others. People from east asian countries think about their mothers as extensions of themselves. measures for attitudes over which participants have no conscious control.
