PSYC1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Phineas Gage, Naturalistic Observation, Blind Experiment
Document Summary
The story of "clever hans" - the need for controlled observations. The systematic observation of one"s own consciousness, generally accompanied by a verbal report of one"s observations. Non-scientific paradigms of early "mentalistic" psychology (but still underlying some contemporary self-report methods. Objectively studying events as they naturally occur, without intervention. Often a good starting point and used in some applied research. Similar to, but distinct form the participant observation method in. Biographical info pertaining to a single individual, obtained retrospectively and often through interview retrospectively and often through interview. Quantitative measure of responses to questions (interview or questionnaire) asked of a large sample. Quantitative measure of performance relative to some pre-established norm. Statistical calculation of the direction and degree of relationship between any two or more observed variables. The coefficient of correlation, "r" is the most common statistical measure of this relationship. The value of r ranges from -1 to +1.
