Types Of Experiments Flashcards

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What are field experiments?

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-takes place in the subjects natural surroundings rather than in an artificial laboratory environment
-those involved are generally not aware that they are the subjects of an experiment, in which case there is no Hawthorne effect

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What is the comparative method?

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-‘a thought experiment’ does not involve the researcher actually experimenting on real people
-designed to discover cause-and-effect relationships
Step 1: identify 2 groups of people that are alike in all major respects except for the one variable we are interested in
Step 2:then compare the two groups to see if this one difference between them has any effect

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What is an example of the comparative method?

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Durkheims study of suicide

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What was durkheims hypothesis in his study of suicide?

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Low levels of integration of individuals into social groups caused high rates of suicide

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What did Durkheim argue in his study of suicide?

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Argued that Catholicism produced higher levels of integration than Protestantism

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What was durkheims prediction in his study of suicide?

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Protestants would have a higher suicide rate than catholics

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How did Durkheim test his prediction in his study of suicide?

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-tested his prediction by comparing the suicide rates of catholics and Protestants who were similar in all other important respects
-his prediction was supported by the official statistics, which showed catholics to have lower suicide rates

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