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Essential Questions
• EQ 1-3: How do psychologists use the scientific method to study behavior and mental processes?
• EQ 1-4: What are the strengths and weaknesses of the different research methods?
• EQ 1-5: How do psychologists draw appropriate conclusions about behavior from research?
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We are
here
The Science of Psychology
Approaches to Psych
Growth of Psych
Research
Methods Statistics
Descriptive Correlation Experiment
Case Study
Survey
Naturalistic Observation
Descriptive Inferential
Ethics
Sampling
Careers
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Correlational Research
• Purpose – to show relationship between two variables.
•Strength – If you know how they are related you can predict outcomes.
•Weakness – Correlation is not causation.
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Start with two Dependent Variables
1. DV = HeightDV = Weight
2. DV = Golf ScoreDV = Number of years the person has played golf
3. DV = IQ scoresDV = Size of your big toe
4. DV = SalaryDV = Happiness
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Do the variables vary together?
• Are the numbers which represent height somehow related to (vary with) the numbers which represent weight?
• Does a person’s golf score vary with years of practice?
• Does IQ vary with big toe length?
• Does happiness vary with salary?
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Next, Create Operational Definitions
• An exact description of how to derive a value for a characteristic you are measuring. It includes a precise definition of the characteristic and how, specifically, data collectors are to measure the characteristic.
• It is a way to get a number from one of your variables.
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Operational Definitions• How you
operationalize the variables will tell us if the study is valid and reliable, and reproducable.
Let’s say you’re trying to find out if chocolate causes violent behavior.
• What do you mean by chocolate?
• What do you mean by violent behavior?
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Operational Definitions in green
1. DV = Height (in inches without shoes)
2. DV = Weight (in lbs without clothes)3. DV = Golf Score (on golf course x)
DV = Number of years the person has played golf
4. DV = IQ scores (from the WAIS test)
DV = Size of your big toe (in mm from top of joint to top of toe)
4. DV = Salary (annual salary including bonuses and benefits)
DV = Happiness (???)
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Operational Definition Practice: • Memory improves with regular exercise. • Proper nutrition aids alertness in the classroom. • People who are talking on car phones do not drive safely. • Lack of sleep impairs ones judgment. • Participating in sports builds character. • Loving parents produce children who grow up to be honest
adults. • Tall people are likely to be extroverts. • Religious people are friendlier than non-religious people.
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Next, Collect Data
• In correlational research each participant in the research is measured on two different dependent (or criterion) variables.
• Are these measurements unrelated to each other or are they somehow related?
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Perfect positivecorrelation (+1.00)
Scatterplot is a graph that comprises of points generated by values of two
variables. The slope of points depicts the direction, The amount of scatter shows the strength
of relationship.
Scatterplots
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No relationship (0.00)Perfect negativecorrelation (-1.00)
Scatterplot on the left shows a relation between the variables, and the one on the right shows no
relationship between the two variables.
Scatterplots
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Types of CorrelationPositive Correlation• The variables go in
the SAME direction.
Negative Correlation• The variables go in
opposite directions.
Studying and grades hopefully has a positive correlation.
Heroin use and grades probably has a negative correlation.
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CorrelationWhen one trait or behavior
accompanies another, we say the two correlate.
Correlation coefficient
Indicates directionof relationship
(positive or negative)
Indicates strengthof relationship(0.00 to 1.00)
r = 0.37+
Correlation Coefficient is a statistical measure of relationship
between two variables.
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Correlation and Strength
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Correlation Coefficient
Which is a stronger correlation?
• -.13 or +.38• -.72 or +.59• -.91 or +.04
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University of Virginia school of Engineering (n=588)
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University of Virginia school of Engineering (n=588)
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Study of Low Self Esteem and Depression
• You do the research because you assume the two are related
• Compare two variables– Variable 1 = Score on a self-esteem test– Variable 2 = Length of a bought of depression
in months
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– Sco
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self
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–Length of a bought of depression in months
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or
Correlation and Causation
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ConfoundingVariables
• A relationship other than causal might exist between the two variables. It's possible that there is some other variable or factor that is causing the outcome.
• Ex: Length of marriage correlates with hair loss in men. Does this mean that marriage causes men to los their hair? Or that balding men make better husbands?
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Correlation indicates a possibility of Causation; not proof!!
• Children with big feet reason better than children with small feet.
– (Children who are older have bigger feet than younger children; thus they can reason better)
• Study done in Korea: The most predictive factor in the use of synthetic birth control use was the number of appliances in the home.
– (Those who have electrical appliances probably have higher socioeconomic level, and thus are probably better educated.)
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Diet soda and weight gain???
The study of more than 600 normal-weight people found, eight years later, that they were 65 percent more likely to be overweight if they drank one diet soda a day than if they drank none. And if they drank two or more diet sodas a day, they were even more likely to become overweight or obese.
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Correlation is not Causation
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The Simpsons(Season 7, "Much Apu About Nothing")
Homer: Not a bear in sight. The "Bear Patrol" is working like a charm!
Lisa: That's specious reasoning, Dad.
Homer: [uncomprehendingly] Thanks, honey.
Lisa: By your logic, I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.
Homer: Hmm. How does it work? Lisa: It doesn't work; it's just a
stupid rock! Homer: Uh-huh. Lisa: But I don't see any tigers
around, do you? Homer: (pause) Lisa, I want to buy
your rock.
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• The number of cavities in elementary school children and vocabulary size are strongly correlated.
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As more ice cream is eaten, more people are murdered.
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In a Gallup poll, surveyors asked, “Do you believe correlation implies causation?’”
• 64% of American’s answered “Yes” .
• 38% replied “No”.
• The other 8% were undecided.
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If not just IQ, then what?
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Illusory Correlations• Redelmeier and Tversky (1996) assessed 18
arthritis patients over 15 months, while also taking comprehensive meteorological data. Virtually all of the patients were certain that their condition was correlated with the weather.
• In fact the actual correlation was close to zero.
• Usually when the data in question stands out
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Illusory Correlations
• The perception of a relationship where none exists (because we are sensitive to dramatic or unusual events)
• Examples from your reading?• Challenger explosion: reverse illusory correlation