PSY379H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Sciences Citation Index, Psyclit, Psycinfo
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Overview of lecture: how to get an experimental idea, how to find out what"s been done, how to decide what variables to manipulate and measure, how to decide on a within-subject vs between-subjects design. Science can"t answer moral questions: ex "are drugs evil?" See if can turn things interesting questions: observing yourself, earliest psychs used introspection. So know that these questions are worth investigating: 2: second of all, when do study going to have to fit it into the theory + how it fits in with what other people have done. How to find out what"s been done: books + textbooks, review articles + edited books. Journal articles: main background + backbone, primary sources used. See the people they cite and then can go look at those up: backward in sense that may be reading an article from 2010, and what they reference may be 2010 and earlier. First thing is need to be able to replicate the iv.
