Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pseudoscience, Response Bias, Operational Definition

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Peer-reviewed: maintain rigorous standards for honesty & accuracy. Failures are searched for and studied closely: over time, more is learned about processes under study. Formal statements that explain how & why certain events are related. Theories are broader then hypotheses: hypothesis tentative explanation or prediction, variable anything that varies. How you are specifically going to define your variable. Supported by new research findings: are parsimonious (simpler the better) Do the results support the hypothesis: do further research & build a theory. Adjust theory on the basis of new findings. Sample - a part of a population, or group that a researcher wants to. & make inferences about. study: good samples: Random each person has = chances of being in the sample. * all descriptive designs have a potential participant response bias. Naturalistic observation careful observation and recording of behavior in real-life settings e. g. , watching children in daycare. Behaviour is observed where it typically occurs.