AUPSY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sleep Deprivation, Blind Experiment, Psych
20 May 2017
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Remember the goal of psychology: to explain behaviour and mental processes, explanations lead to: Explanation: the factors that are affecting the observations that we are making: identi es causal factors in behaviour, theory: general overall explanation. A coherent network of explanatory ideas: hypothesis: educated guess based on the theory. Includes a causal factor and an effect. Double blind procedure - observers are unbiased / blinded. Operational de nitions: a precise de nition of the particle variable you"re looking at, conceptual a more concrete de nition. Participants from population - select a sample of the participants (same proportion of individuals) Monday, september 12, 2016: take a random sampling to produce a representative sample then, we can generalize results to the proportion of the whole population, if we don"t use a representative sample, we would have a biased result. Peer review: journals / researches undergo peer review.
