Kinesiology 1080A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Dependent And Independent Variables, Scientific Method, Empiricism

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 1080A/B
• Professor: Matthew Heath

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Colours influence movement- how quickly and accurately you move. Goals of science- to make very precise predictions based on statistics: understand. Predict- very important component associated with the scientific method. Empiricism- evidence based, has been tested using the scientific method of empiricism: verification by observation. A process of gathering information and knowledge about the world. Making hypotheses about nature of things and testing these hypotheses. Science is just one way of acquiring knowledge- best way of doing it. Tool for determining nature of relationship between variables- this is a correlational expe looks at how two variables are related to one another ex: heugh and weight. You can manipulate a variable so you can observe the effects of a variable on a another v reaction time to stimulus, one stimulus is visual, other is auditory- this is a cause and effe experiment. **will always have an independent and dependent variable. How do the variables relate to the concepts of interest.