PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Liquid Oxygen, Hawthorne Effect, Standard Deviation
8 Nov 2015
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Creating a falsifiable hypothesis to test i. e. viewers change their behaviour to be more like the people they see playing in the hockey game: test hypotheses: testing the hypotheses with different research methods, build a theory: a. b. Researchers are not able to attain the whole population they are researching, methods for choosing participants include: sample: a sample from their population of interest, are studied in an experiment for the entire population, random selection: identifying as ample in such a way that everyone in the population of interest has an equal chance of being involved in the study, this method limits sampling bias that can be caused when you select a group that is likely to confirm your hypothesis, can be elusive; not all the population are relevant in studies, regarding the hockey and aggression case; 3 years olds are not interested in hockey nor have the capability of making behavioural choices.
