PSY 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: 4 The People, Longitudinal Study, Confounding
1 Mar 2018
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Main components of science : acquire knowledge, a real world that we know about, making new discoveries. Ethics of science : accurately reporting their ndings, informed consent. A seto statements that describes a relationship between behaviour and the facts that in uence that behaviour. In articles, it is not always blatantly written what the theory is. Famous psychology theories or theorists : emerging adults, piaget childhood development, freud, erik erikson life span development. Proven statements that are supported by strong evidence. Very rarely use the word law in psychology. Ex: there is strong evidence to supported that early events in life will a ect development later. Statement as how one variable may be in uence or related to another. Watching and observing what people are doing and recording it. This can be done through interviews, observations and case studies. Ex: if we want to study bullying in children, we would want to watch them to see how they.
