Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Job Satisfaction, Confounding, Social Desirability Bias

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Kittty genovese, 38 bystanders watched her be stabbed to death but nobody called the police. Bystander effect: the diffusion of responsibility. Pick a question of interest: gather, test. Try out hypothesis: analyze, observe and analyze data, draw conclusions, report findings, build. Form a body of knowledge, ask questions, do more research, test theories. Short form: form hypothesis, manipulate independent variable, measure dependant variable, control extra variables. Help us with false claims: baby einstein show. Media violence & aggression: the more media violence they watch the more aggressive they are, social learning theory: people learn things by watching them happen, design and execute experiment. Control everything else, or it will be confounded. Test effectiveness of weight loss program measured weekly. Independent: counselling program: dependant: weekly weight, deter(cid:373)i(cid:374)e the (cid:862)truth(cid:863) Are there are real differences statistics: communicate the results. Discuss other related experiments in book chapter. We understand our behavior by looking at it after-the-fact (in hindsight)