PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Scientific Method, List Of Fables Characters, Psych

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1X03
• Professor: Joe Kim

Document Summary

Psych 1x03 module 2 - research methods in psychology 1. : a general set of ideas about the way the world works relationship between variables involved in the theory. : dramatic change in our way of thinking and how we see the world. : evidence gathered from others of self experience. : scientific tool used to measure the effect of one variable on another. : one group acts as the control group. : improved performance over the course of an experiment due to becoming. : manipulating the independent variable within each: between subject design, practice effect, confounding variable the results. : variable other than the independent variable that has an effect on. : the selected members of the population that we actually collect data from: the sample must accurately represent the population itself so that the results o the. : the general group of people we are trying to learn about experiment can be generalized.