PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Psy, Hindsight Bias, Dependent And Independent Variables
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The methods of social psychology: experiment with sending letters to employers where the candidate admitted to manslaughter. Observational research: simplest level of research is observational, participant observation involves observing some phenomenon at close range, experiment living with middle-class and working-class to see school preparations. Middle-class families were more prepared and it showed in marks. Archival research their cultures: researchers look at archives of various kinds for descriptions of different people and, observed that insult related homicides are more common in the south was found by looking through fbi reports. Surveys: studies can involve interviewers or written questionnaires. Self-selection: a problem that arises when the participant, rather than the investigator, selects his or her level on each variable, bringing with this value unknown other properties that make casual interpretation of a relationship difficult. In correlational research the investigator can only look at the degree of a relationship between the variables. (r=0 is none, r=1 is perfect)
