PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Scientific Method, Informed Consent, Operational Definition

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Psyc100 - lecture 2: research methods and statistics. Locked-in syndrome : no longer able to move due to brain damage from house fire. Tech like brain scanners allow you to access that process even without behaviour. We ask them yes or no questions (think tennis for yes, houses for no). Do you want to change your living will . These important questions need very precise and sure answers. Informed consent (they must know what will happen) Ethics are defined in psychology by the declaration of helsinki, here by the canadian psychology association, and is reviewed by ethics boards. Consistently getting the same answer to a question, across time and observations. How applicable it is to situations other than the one specific situation it was original used in. Defines something in terms of a process or set of terms needed to quantify it, or make it measurable.