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Social Psychology Ch. 2 Notes
- Course
- PSY 2510-103
- Institution
- Ohio University
Ch. 2 Notes covers all of the social psychological material listed within the required textbook.
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hindsight bias
Answer: the tendency for people to exaggerate, after knowing that something occurred and how much they could have predicted it before it occurred
2.
observational method
Answer: the technique whereby a researcher observes people and systematically records measurements of impressions of their behavior
3.
ethnography
Answer: the method by which researchers attempt to understand a group or culture by observing it from the inside, without imposing any preconceived notions that they might have
4.
archival analysis
Answer: a form of the observational method in which the researcher examines the accumulated documents, or archives, of a culture (diaries, novels, magazines, newspapers)
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correlational method
Answer: the technique whereby 2 or more variables are systematically measures and the relationships between them (i.e., how much one can be predicted from the other) is assessed
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surveys
Answer: research in which a representative sample of people are asked (often anonymously) questions about their attitudes or behavior
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random selection
Answer: a way of ensuring that a sample of people is representative of a population by giving everyone in the population an equal chance of being selected for the sample
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experimental method
Answer: the method in which the researcher randomly assigns participants to different conditions and ensures that these conditions are identical expect for the independent variable (the one thought to have a causal effect on people\'s responses)
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independent variable
Answer: the variable a researcher changes or varies to see if it has an effect on some other variable
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dependent variable
Answer: the variable a researcher measures to see if it is influenced by the independent variable, the researcher hypothesizes that the dependent variable will depend on the level of the independent variable
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