Psychology 2061A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Absenteeism
8 Dec 2013
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If you carry out research in a scientific way, you have a high possibility that you"re going to. September 19th 2013 get an accurate picture of reality. Being unsure about changing an answer, common sense says don"t change it but you would have a higher chance of getting it right if you changed it. Independent variable that is manipulated, and dependant variable that is not manipulated. Subjects are not randomly assigned to conditions. Experiments identify the independent and dependent variables: i) Dependent variable: customer complaints: independent variable: night or day shift. Dependent variable: # of errors: independent variable: paid on commission or hourly. Might not be practical, easy, or ethical to manipulate variables. That"s why experiments are the most powerful type of research you can talk about cause and effect. Hypothesis: employees would be absent less if an on-site child-care centre is established. Child-care centre is not manipulated, which is why it"s a quasi-experiment.
