Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Scientific Method, Dependent And Independent Variables, Naturalistic Observation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Donald Gorassini

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This (cid:449)eek"s the(cid:373)e is verifying through science - we assess beliefs about nature. Ron installing a garden: hypothesis: prediction about new facts made from theory. Lessons from clever hans (part 1: the case of the horse named clever hans illustrates a number of issues fundamental to scientific research. Illustrates the value of the scientific approach: mr. von osten, theory, hypothesis, observation, enter oskar pfungst (1911, theory, hypothesis, observation. Types of research strategies: research design, experiments, correlation studies, descriptive studies, setting, field, laboratory, data collection method, self- report, observation. Research design: experiments part 1: studies case-effect relationships, aim is to study how the dependent variable depends on the independent variable, example, dependent variable; amount of digging of lawn (square meters) Independent variable; (cid:862)(cid:373)a(cid:374)ipulatio(cid:374)(cid:863) - *2 or more conditions in an experiment* - Independent variable: variable that is hypothesized to cause some effect on another variable: dependent variable: variable that is hypothesized to be affected.