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Experiment psych Flashcards

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hawthorne effect

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people know they are being watched and change their behavior as a result

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demand characteristics

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people figure out the hypothesis of a study and change their behavior in order to support the hypothesis (or more rarely to deny it)

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how do you increase statistical significance in a study?

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increase the number of data points (measurements, people, etc)

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construct validity

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the design of the experiment tests the hypothesis.

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