PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - School, Sample Size Determination, Sleep Deprivation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

Document Summary

Big research issues (at least according to myers) Is all that exists material in form: laws of physical universe. Psychology concepts : love, hate liberty, free will, the mind, conscious unconscious . What is the problem that needs to be solved: 1. A possible answer to the question that is being asked: theory: literature search and a summary/synthesis of what is already known, note that this is not opinion or speculation . Statement of the hypothesis: definition of variables of interest. Before a theory can be tested, we need to define our variables: measure quantification of variables. Quantification = more or less: design the study. Requires a knowledge of different research designs and the advantages/disadvantages of each design: run the study, analyze the results. What are the possible answers? (what is the controversy?) Development of theory a summary (synthesis of what we already know) .