PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Reuptake, Myelin, Interneuron

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

Replication, convergence [find the same thing using a variety of mythologies], multiple methods and the peer review process. Scientific thinking occurs across 2 levels: conceptual and operational. Conceptual: level which you are thinking about reality, forming models, theories, descriptions, relatively pure- how different factors interact with each other. Operational: the experimental, measurement level, the thing you"re actually studying, what instrument or manipulation you use to reflect the conceptual variables. Process of taking one"s pure theoretical construct and figuring out how to represent it through some sort of measurement device. You need to test out whether violent media is polluting our minds. One thing you could do is an experiment where your manipulating how many movies people are watching [violent or non-violent] compare the groups that watch a lot and who don"t watch a lot. Your always left with limitations around the conclusions. Teachers evaluation with kids in schoolyard or parents evaluation with their children at home.