PSYO 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Biological Anthropology, Hebbian Theory, Primatology
5 Oct 2015
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Lecture 5: when and how dies this occur, during the experimentation observation: giving clues to the subject, misinterpreting behaviours, during recording or analysis of the behaviour/data (especially during times of uncertainty, often unconscious. Scared principles of science: the basic idea of scientific experimental research is replication (to judge reliability) not statistical significance, relevant to n of 1 or case study research, claude bernard (1865): introduction l" tude de la m dicine exp rimentale, experimentation = provoked observation, show me the data! , sometimes when you have a case study, or a small n study, one way to check what really happened is to redo the experiment. Rules, formulas computational ways: theories: level of description, descriptive: describe relationship between variables, no, analogical: the relationship between variables are explained via explanations given analogies or metaphors, fundamental: complex new constructs and concepts are suggested.
