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What Phenomenon Is The Article Trying To Explain?

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Your job will be to read this article (this semester, it will be Lai et al. (2014), choose one of the articles they cite, understand the theory being put forward, identify the variables, and come up with a BRIEF idea for one experimental and one non-experimental study (two in total) based on these ideas. 1) Use “Save As” to save this document to a file named (-- removed HTML --) -relatingvariables. 2) Read the article. What phenomenon is the article trying to explain? The phenomenon the article is trying to explain is understanding social cognition. 3) Can you see how the strategies they suggest are based on theories (sets of variables and the relationships that they have been demonstrated to have)? If not, ask about that. Take …show more content…

(2005). The power of a story: New, automatic associations from a single reading of a short scenario. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12(1), 139-144. doi:10.3758/bf03196359 * As you identify variables, beware of two opposite traps: Trap A) – don't fall into the trap of saying this level of X (e.g. smoker) is one variable and that level of X (e.g. non-smoker) is another variable. Actually there would be just one variable, X (e.g., “smoking,” or more explicitly, “whether someone currently smokes vs. does not currently smoke” --- and you'd wnat to specify what window counts as "currently"). Trap B) – don't fall into the trap of saying that a variable is how X influences Y (e.g. how smoking influences depression). That would involve a relationship bebween two variables, “smoking” and “depression.” 5) Next, go through both articles enough to figure out at least one way (but better all the different ways) that the researchers have operationalized those variables, or have suggested operationalizing them. Make yourself a chart in whatever way is most obvious to you to show the variables and the operationalizations. Here's my simple-minded set-up if you want to use it. Theoretical construct // Conceptual variable How the articles operationalized them Countersterotypical scenario The authors operationalized by showing how bugs are good and flowers are bad. The idea was shown as a condition to sum. Perception of race. The authors operationalized by showing various

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