Summary Research Process: Variables (Psychology)

The Research Process
Standard Procedure:
A set of procedures that are the same for all
Independent Variables: Manip
ulated
participants in order to be able to repeat the tas
Some event that is directly manipulated Conditi (Two
ons)
by an experimenter in order to test its
effect on the DV.




Measured
Change
Dependent Variables: Extraneous Variab
Experiments: The thing that is measured Do not vary systematica
A research method where casual conclusions before/after it has been affected by IV but may have an effe
can be drawn because an IV has been the IV.
deliberately manipulated to observe the
casual effect on the DV.




Confounding Variables:
Generalisation
Vary systematically with the IV but m
also have an effect on the DV – DV co
Internal/External Operationalise:
Results Ensuring that variables are in a form that
caused by IV or CV.
Validity
can be easily tested. Concepts need to be
Reliability specified if we are going to investigate it.