PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Naturalistic Observation, Social Comparison Theory, Demand Characteristics

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

The methods it uses to ask questions about behavior and mental processes. Goal of psychology, as a science. It"s the view that knowledge comes from experience and senses. Refers to data that is collected through scientific observation. Hans was a horse that travelled with the others but was able to answer all sorts of math questions and trivial questions by stomping with his feet and from a board. A psychologist (oscar funx) figured out that clever hans was incredibly good at reading cues in the humans who are asking him those questions. Was a factory that tried to increase employee productivity. If you go into an experiment with a certain belief it will alter your research and hypothesis (become bias at times) When the researcher"s expectations influence the results. Participants don"t know the conditions they are in and experimenters don"t know what conditions the participants are in. Scientific theories explain the relationship between two or more variables.