PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Scientific Literacy
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Scientific literacy: learning to listen to science and come to your own decisions. When you do research, you ask a question and want to test the hypothesis. Often act of observing can change the behavior we can. You want to be invisible so that they can act naturally. Pattern - a social hierarchy that she noticed. She had a theory of hierarchy and now she has to test it. Productivity went up because they were being watched and they knew they were being watched. Prefer people didn"t know we were watching. Placebo effect: suggestion, someone telling you this will help u. Ex. chimpanzee maintain higher by maintaining eye contact. Once you have a theory, you need to do experiment testing a specific method. Start with theory then you drive the specific question, which we call hypothesis. Hypothesis is more specific. if it works it makes us more comfortable for the theory.
