PSYC 2700H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: List Of Fables Characters, Empiricism, Random Assignment
5 Apr 2016
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Methodology: the scieniic atempt to explain how the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours of individuals are inluenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of other human beings". How do we go about this: scieniic empiricism. Science systemaic pursuit of knowledge through observaion: vs. revelaion, intuiion, folk wisdom, logic. Theory a set of proposed principles to explain the observed phenomena: doesn"t stop with the theory goes farther. Hypothesis a speciic predicion about what should and shouldn"t happen if a theory is correct: operaional deiniions not abstract ideas. Test a structured observaion of what happens: revise theory, test new hypotheses. P. t barnum efect tendency to assign personal meaning to statements that could apply to everyone. Correlaional predicion: is there a systemaic, naturally occurring, relaionship between two or more variables. If yes, can predict one from other: correlaion coeicient (r): varies from -1. 0 to +1. 0.
