Where do research questions come from?
Theory testing
Curiosity
Psychology textbooks
Psychology assignments
The public
Technique testing
For phenomena demonstration
Between-subjects designs
What is an advantage of having a within-subjects design?
More power for finding significance
Participants get a practise effect
Random allocation allows control for confounds
It allows us to determine if an article will be accepted for publication due to topic importance
One advantage of factorial designs is that it lets us see the effects of different independent variables separately or together.
What are the three requirements that need to be present to be able to determine causality?
Cause precedes effect
Relationship is non-spurious
Relationship between cause/effect
A correlation of 0.6 or higher
A significance of 0.5 or higher
Presence of confounds
How do social psychologists test ideas?
Participant observation
Looking at archives
Surveys
Correlational research
Experimental research
Reflection on personal experience
By watching reality shows such as big brother
Internal validity refers to...
How well an experiment represents a real life situation
How well an independent variable can account for the results found
How close a participant scores on repeated measures of the same task
The rigorousness of the studies design
The tendency of extreme scores to be followed by less extreme scores is called regression to the mean accuracy precision reliability( regression to the mean, accuracy, precision, reliability ).
