Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Active Listening, Scientific Method, Kinsey Reports

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Next time: biological bases and methods scan: finish chap. When you do something that you don"t like, you are more likely to justify your behaviour. Active listening, important info (attend to speaker, anticipate) Write speakers comments in your own words. Attend to clues (this is really important this is going to be on the exam , etc. ) Hypothesis tentative statement about a relation between 2 or events. Theory: collection of hypotheses, on organizing system, more general elaborate; good theories generate good hypotheses. Behaviour theory: you can test it: design and execute the experiment variables and control. Identify variables (this will be on the exam) Control: we want to say that independent (causes) dependent. Without proper control, the experiment is confounded: determine the truth. Statistics help determine the truth: communicate the results. Present a verbal description of results at a convention. Discuss several related experiments in book chapter.