PSY 2114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wide Range Achievement Test, Inter-Rater Reliability, Preterm Birth

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2114
• Professor: Heather Poole

Document Summary

Psychology is a science: focusses on objective measures. General research methods: observational approaches, reports, case studies, psychophysiological methods. : observing individuals in a laboratory: structured. Just bringing them into a lab that provided a controlled setting so the conditions are indentical for all of the people: advantages: conditions are identical for all subjects, disadvantages: behavior may not be typical of child"s behavior. They know they are being observed so their behavior might change. If different counts: poor inter rater reliability. One hand flapping, or both hands flapping: what constitutes an instance of the behavior, minimize interpretation, can influence participants, example: video. Kids invited to play in room full of toys. Hands on experience with each life sized toys. Wants to see kids behavior replaced life sized toys with miniatures treat the toys the same way as nothing has changed. Try to get in the tiny carect. All the children responded in the same way.