What is the standard term for a small scale study conducted to make sure that a procedure works as planned quizlet?

The story of Kitty Genovese has been told and retold in numerous psychology textbooks. The standard version is that there were 38 witnesses to the crime, that all of them watched (or listened) for an extended period of time, and that none of them did anything to help. However, recent scholarship suggests that the standard story is inaccurate in many ways (Manning, Levine, & Collins, 2007)[3].For example, only six eyewitnesses testified at the trial, none of them was aware that he or she was witnessing a lethal assault, and there have been several reports of witnesses calling the police or even coming to the aid of Kitty Genovese. Although the standard story inspired a long line of research on the bystander effect and the diffusion of responsibility, it may also have directed researchers' and students' attention away from other equally interesting and important issues in the psychology of helping—including the conditions in which people do in fact respond collectively to emergency situations.

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Experiment
- is
- asks
- features (2)
- manipulation and control

- type of study designed specifically to answer the question of whether theres is a causal relationship between two variables
- do changes in an IV cause changes in a DV?
- two fundamental features:
1. researchers manipulate or systematically vary the levels (conditions) of the IV
2. researcher controls or minimizes the variability in variables other than the IV and DV (extraneous variables)
- researchers manipulate the IV by systematically changing its levels and control other variables by holding them constant

Internal validity

- a study is high in internal validity if the way it was conducted supports the conclusion that the IV caused any observed diffs in the DV

external validity

- a study is high in external validity if the way it was conducted supports generalizing the results to ppl and situations beyond those actually studied
- studies are higher in external validity when the participants and situations studied are similar to those that the researchers wants to generalize to

field experiments

- experiments conducted outside the lab
- have good external validity

Manipulate (3) (means/must)

- to manipulate an IV means to change its level systematically so that diff groups of participants are exposed to diff levels of that variable, or the same group of participants is exposed to diff levels at diff times
- manipulation of an IV must involve the active intervention of the researcher
- active manipulation of the IV is crucial for eliminating the third variable problem

Conditions

- the diff levels of the IV
- researchers often give the conditions short descriptive names

Manipulation check

- in many experiments, the IV is a construct that can only be manipulated indirectly
- thus have to include this separate measure of the construct the researcher is trying to manipulate to verify that they successfully manipulated the variable

Extraneous variable
- is
- includes
- problem
- problem

- anything that varies in the context of a study other than the independent and dependent variables
- can include individual diffs, situation, task variables
- pose a problem bc many of them are likely to have some effect on the DV
- can make it difficult to separate the effect of the IV from the effects of the EV's which is why its important to control them by holding them constant

Extraneous variables: problems
- (2)

- EV's make it difficult to detect effect of IV in two ways:
1. adds variability or noise to the data
2. can become confounding variables

Controlling extraneous variables
- 2 ways

- one way to control them is to hold them constant; holding a situation or task variables constant by testing all participants in the same location, give them identical instructions, treat them the same
- also can hold particpant variables constant; limit particpants to one very specfic category of person (however this lowers external validity)

confounding variable
- is
- confounding because
- control

- is an extraneous variable that differs on average across levels of the IV
ex: particpants IQ's
- are counfounding because just like the IV they differ across conditions and provide an alternative explanation for any observed diffs in the dependent variable
- avoid them by holding extraneous variables constant or random assignment to conditions

Between-subjects experiment
- is
- important

- participant experiences one level (one condition) of the IV
- often used to determine wether a tx works
- essential in btwn sub design that researchers assign partipants to conditions so that the diff groups are on avg highly similiar to each other (controls extraneous participant variables so that they dont become confounding)

Random assignment
- is
- means
- two criteria
- problem

- primary way that researchers accomplish control of EV's across conditions
- means using a random process to decide which participants are tested in which conditions
- should meet two criteria:
1. each participant has an equal chance of being assigned to each condition (50% chance of being assigned to each of two conditions)
2. each particpant is assigned to a condition independently of other participants
- one problem with coin flipping and other procedures for random assignment is that they are likely to result in unequal sample sizes in the diff conditions

Random sampling

- is a method for selecting a sample from a population and is rarely used in psych research

Block randomization

- a modified random assignment to keep number of participants in each group as similar as possible
- all conditions occur once in the sequence before any of them is repeated; then they all occur again before any of them is repeated again; within each of these blocks the conditions occur in random order

Random assignment:
-issue
-however (3)

- not guaranteed to control all EV's across conditions
- however not so much a concern for two reasons:
1. random assignment works better than one might expect, esepcially for larger samples
2. Inferential stats takes the fallibility of RA into account
3. even if RA does result in confounding variables, it is likely to be detected when experiment is replicated

Treatment
- is
- use

- any intervention meant to change ppl's behavior for the better
- treatment condition= get tx
- control condition= dont get tx

randomized clinical trial

- research on the effectiveness of psychotherapies and med treatments often called this

no-treatment control condition
- is
- problem

- participants get no tx whatsoever
- placebo effects

placebo

- a simulated treatment that lacks any active ingredient or element that should make it effective

placebo effect
- is
- caused by
- control by (3)

- a positive effect of a placebo treatment
- driven primarily by ppls expectations that they will improve
1. placebo control condition
2. waitlist control condition
3. leave out control condition completely and compare any new tx with best alternative tx

placebo control condition

- controls for placebo effect
- participants get placebo that looks like the tx but lacks the active ingredient or element thought to be responsible for the tx's effectivness

Waitlist control condition

- controls for placebo effects
- participants are told they will recieve tx but must wait until the partipants in the tx condition have already gotten it
- allows researchers to compare participants who have gotten tx with partipants who are not currenlty getting it but expect to improve eventually

Within-subjects experiment
- is
- advs (2)
- disadvantages (2)

- each participant tested under all conditions; gets all levels of the IV
1. provides max control of extraneous participant variables (participants in all conditions have same mean IQ, SES ect.)
2. also make it possible to use stat procedures that remove the effect of these extraneous participant variables on the DV and thus make the data less noisy and the effect of the IV easier to detect
1. carryover effects
2. make it easier for participants to guess hypothesis

carryover effect
- is
- causes
- 3 types

- is an effect of being tested in one condition on participants behavior in later conditions
- order of conditions becomes the confounding variable
1. practice effect- participants perform better in later conditions bc they had chance to practice it
2. fatigue effect- participants perform worse in later conditions bc they become tired or bored
3. context effect- being tested in one condition can change how particpants perceive stimuli in later conditions

counterbalancing
- is
- accomplishes (2)

- solution to problem of carryover effects
- means testing diff participants in diff orders
- particpants assigned to orders of conditions randomly
1. controls the order of conditions so that it is no longer a confounding variable
2. is there are carryover effects, it makes it possible to detect them

simultaneous within subject designs

- participants make multiple responses in each condition
- verse testing them in one condition at a time

Between subjects design
- advantages

1. conceptually simpler and require less testing time per participant
2. avoid carryover effects without need for counterbalancing

Within subject design
- advantages

1. control extraneious particpant variables which reduces noise making it easier to detect a relationship btwn IV and DV

Approaches to recruiting parpants(3)

1. use participants from a formal subject pool- an established group of ppl who have agreed to be contacted about being in studies
2. posting/ publishing advertisments
3. making personal appeals to groups that represent the population of interest

experimenter expectancy effect

- unintended variation in the procedure that affects particpants behavior due to the experiementers expectations about how participants should behave

Standardization:
- 6 ways to minimize unintended variation in the procedure

1. create a written protocol that specifices everything the experimenters are to do and say
2. create standard instructions that participants read or experimenter reads word for word
3. automate the rest of the procedure as much as possible
4. anticpate particpant's questions
5. train multiple experimenters on the protocol
6. be sure that each experimenter test particpants in all conditions

double-blind study

- way to minimize experimenter expectancy effects
- both the particpants and experimenters are blind to the condition

record keeping

- as you test participants you should list basic demographic info: date, time and place of testing, name of experimenter, comments on unusual occurences

pilot test
- is
- answers

- a small scale study conducted to make sure that a new procedure works as planned
1. do participants understand instructions
2. what kind of misunderstandings, mistakes and questions do particpants have
3. do particpants become bored or frustrated
4. is an indirect manipulation effective
5. can they guess the hypothesis
6. how long does the procedure take
7. are computer progroms working properly
8. are data being recoreded correctly

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