Just like many other psyco classes that I’ve taken in the past two years, we have to go through this chapter of research methods. Of courses I picked up a few new points each time we are doing it. Anyways, moving on…
Since most of the psychology experiments are conducted with university students, it had been argued how well can their results being replicated and generalized to the public population. Here is one actual paper from my personality class that evidently pointing out university student’s major difference.
Sears (1986): University students differ from the general population, because they:
1) Are pre-selected for compliance with authority figures
2) Have elevated Cognitive skills
3) Are egocentric in their self-reports
4) Have a sense of self that has not been fully crystallized
5) Have a personality is till evolving and not fully developed.
Something to take about.
Edward Wong is a Year 3 Neuroscience student at University of Alberta, Canada.
