PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Inter-Rater Reliability, Syphilis, Descriptive Statistics
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Chapter 2 the ways and means of psychology. Case: justine attempts to increase productivity at her family business. She notices that the chairs cause ache and all so she switches it for an adjustable chair. She encourages the workers and the productivity increases by 20% in one week. After a few weeks passes she stops by again and see that productivity has decreased by 20%. She reintroduces the old chairs and works with the employees to her surprise productivity increase by 20%. Scientific method allows us to determine the causes of phenomena. In psychology the goal is to discover the causes of behaviour. There are three basic forms; naturalistic observation, experiments and correlational studies. They occur in a progressive sequence each one providing compelling evidence. Natural observations the observation of people and animals in their natural environment (little to no involvement) Correlational studies can be observed in nature however they undergo formal measurements.
