PSY 310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Emic And Etic, Psych
8 Dec 2016
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Conducting a good experiment ii: final considerations, unanticipated influences, and cross-cultural. Precedent an est pattern; researchers work w/ particular type of participant successfully in prior research: can limit generalizability/but has likelihood of success. Availability white lab rats and college students easily accessible. Type of research proj nature of proj determines participant type. Power likelihood that statistical test will be significant. Nature of iv influence type of apparatus you use. Ways in which you can present iv limited by type of iv. Expectations may cause him/her to behave certain way toward participants. Rosenthal effect- result when experimenter"s idea of appropriate resp influences treatment of participants. Experimenter expectancies: carefully prepped instructions, instrumentation and automation, single-blind experiment keep experimenter in dark which partiipants receive which treatment. Demand characteristics features of experiment tht inadvertently lead participants to respond in particular manner. Good participant effect tendency for subj to behave as they perceive experimenter wants them to behave.
