PSYB04H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Anagram, Control Variable, Internal Validity
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Introduction to simple experiments: a causal claim is the boldest kind of claim a scientist can make. Interventions are often the ultimate goal of scientific studies, and they must be based on sound, experimental research. In north american context, red is associated with causation: andrew elliot, a psychologist who studies academic achievement, wanted to know whether the (cid:272)olor red (cid:272)ould affe(cid:272)t people"s perfor(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e o(cid:374) a(cid:272)ade(cid:373)i(cid:272) tasks, elliot learned something important about academic achievement: Students in school tend to do better when they have an approach orientation rather than an avoidance orientation: when students adopt an approach orientation toward an academic task, they try to succeed. Study: they recruited 71 students into a laboratory setting, one at a time. The students took a 5- minute test in which they unscrambled anagrams (e. g. , unscrambling the letters krnid to form the word drink).
