PSY 2174 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Battle Of Dutch Harbor, Operational Definition, Consistency
22 Mar 2017
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Chapter 3: developing ideas for research in psychology. Research concerned with describing and explaining the fundamental principles of behaviour and mental processes and using his to make predictions. Basic research is about taking a random world and putting an order. Looking for patterns and the patterned will be related to the environment or situation that causes these patterns that can"t be seen by basic experiences. When your describing what does it look like (form) Likelihood of occurance given nature of environment at that time. Fundamental principles some sort of behaviour or ability. An ability or function of the brain and what it serves. Also what effects it; determine if you"re good or not at something. Some info goes in automatically others info must be effort fully encoded. Research concerned with real-world practical applications of psychological principles. Research conducted in the controlled environment of a lava oratory. Control allows allows for isolation of the effects of a single factor.
