Chapter 2: Expectations and Bias Flashcards
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Hawthorne effect:
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Behaviour changes under observation.
2
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Demand characteristics:
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Participants behave as they think they should when they are being observed.
They can guess the hypothesis of the study and behave as expected.
3
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Demand characteristics: Prevention methods
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- Deception (and debriefs after the study)
- Naturalistic observation
- Participants participate anonymously.
4
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Observer bias:
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Tendency for observer’s expectations to influence both what they believe they observed and what actually happened.
5
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Observer bias: Prevention methods: Double-blind study:
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Researchers don’t have any expectations on behaviour. Participants do not know what is being studied/ observed.
A study where the researchers nor the participants know how the participants are going to behave.