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Research Designs

Experimental Research: researchers manipulate independant variable and observe/measure dependant variable

Correlational Design: scientists passively observe and measure phenomena. No intervention. Identify patterns of relationships.

Validity

Ecological validity: degree to which effect has been obtained under conditions that are typical for what happens in everyday life

External Validity: degree to which finding generalizes from specific sample to larger population

Internal Validity: degree to which cause-effect relationship between variables has been unambiguously established

Studying everyday life

Daily experiences-collect in the momemt self-report data of one's everyday life

Online behaviour- how people act and interact online

Daily behaviour- how our bodies respond to fluctuating demands of our lives

Daily physiology- how our bodies respond to fluctuating demands of our lives

Statistical significance helps quantify whether a result is likely due to chance or to some factor of interest

Random sample: probability based method to select subset of individuals

Cause and effect: concliusions relateed to whether we say our variable is causing changes in the other variable

Generalizability: results of studies with widely representative samples are more likely to generalize to a population

Margin of error: expected amount of random variable in stats

P-Value: tells you how often a random process would give a result at least as extreme as what was found in the actual study- assuming chance was the only factor