Research methods

-bring order to diffuse/multiple findings
-understand basis of change
-unite diverse outcomes
-direct attention to what should be studied

-A characteristic of the participants or a situation in a given study that has different values

-Describes or defines a variable in terms of the operations used to produce it or techniques used to measure it

manipulate it (different situations and H is that the situation will make an effect on some DV)
• Environmental or situation manipulation
• Instructional manipulation

• Not necessarily manipulated
• Personality
• Demographic, age, gender
• Something about the person that you are not manipulating
• We can group them by their status and compare across groups
• We look at a characteristic across grouping variable

conditions that are varied or manipulated that produce change or the differences among -conditions that are expected to influence subject performance (what you start with and manipulate)

-outcome or criterion, assumed to measure or assess the effect of the independent variable

-Variables not of particular interest in a study by they could influence the dependent variable

looking at if you can see changes based on intervention with more control

real world, like in a community clinic

Lab: more controlled
Applied: more real world