PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gastrulation, Psychological Testing, Data Analysis

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 302
• Professor: Lixia Yang

Document Summary

Formulate a hypothesis - you want to be able to test if you can replicate it (or identify a problem) Gather data to test the hypothesis (see of your hypothesis is right) A set of procedures that scientists follows to do a psychological test. Interviews (structured vs. clinical) - you ask kids questions and they verbally tell you. Questionnaires - a list of questions they have to write out like a test. Kids might be biais with the questions so you can then use observation. Naturalistic (e. g. , home, school) - see how they do their everyday things. Structured observations (e. g. , lab)- they have a set of test they have to follow and see how they react to them. Direction- which ways the variable change in the relationship. Strength - how strong is the relationship. Random assignment: randomly assign children to the experimental and control groups. Experimental control: manipulate or control specific experiences encountered by children.