PSYC 2360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dependent And Independent Variables, Falsifiability, Naturalistic Observation
23 Mar 2016
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Purpose: increase understanding of behaviour, provide methods for improving the quality of lives. Set of assumpion, rules and procedures scienists use to conduct research. Objecive: doesn"t mater who carries it out. Replicable: doesn"t mater where it is carried out. Science must be based on what has come before it. Systemaic collecion and analysis of data observaion and measurement. Objecive statements determined to be accurate through empirical. Values and facts support and inluence each other studies. Study of human behaviour for two main reasons: basic research. Answer fundamental quesions about the nature of behaviour: applied research. Want to contribute to creaing soluions to problems that face human beings. Addresses issues in which there are pracical problems and potenial soluions. Progress in science is dependent on a reciprocal synergy between applied an basic research. It is designed to answer quesions about the current state of afairs.
