After spending time in this class you notice the wide range of personalities in your family while attending a family gathering.
During the gathering at Aunt Millie's home she insists on everyone singing traditional holiday songs together. The neurotic, the extraverted, the shy, the anxious, the open, and all of the other personality types in your family join in song at Aunt Millie's request. Her success at getting all of these personalities to join in song is due to the:
Situational strength when one is affected by certain cues influenced by the particular environment to act in a particular way.
This strength gives someone a pressure to as they get involved in a particular behaviour or reject a particular behaviour.
This psychological pressure will cause someone behave that particular way irrespective of their personality.
In a strong situation situational strength is too high which means even if a person is an introvert or shy or not a people person however they will be influenced by the situation to act a particular way that may not be normal even to them.
During family gathering everyone get excited and they are in the mood that no one wants to be left out because it is a family gathering after all which means having fun together a s a family. Even those who can't do certain stuff like singing will always join together in family gathering this is because of the strong situation presented by the gathering of the family which increases the situational strength .
When a researcher mixing two or more variable then the researcher wants to see the effect of how each variable affects the behavior of an individual and how all variables work together and affect the behavior of an individual. This process is also called a factorial design. The main aim of the research is to find out the relationship between two or more variables. It eliminates or reduces the outer variable that could affect the results of the study. In real life, we can say that it is rare that variables could be isolate. The behavior in the study could be influenced by a different types of variables that interacting simultaneously.
