Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Internal Validity, Personality Test, Neuropsychological Test

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Prof

Document Summary

People feel as if others will take responsibility. Research and observe the interest subject almost like a guess, called a hypothesis. reactions from the test subjects. findings behaviours occur is tested by conducting more research. Hindsight: reasoning after the fact, problem with using hindsight is that many different explanations can be made to understand behaviour. Understanding through prediction, control, and theory building: scientists like to test cause and effect directly, theory development has several important characteristics o. It"s testable o: predictions made are supported by findings of new research o preferred (law of parsimony) If two theories can predict the same thing equally well, the simpler is. Defining and measuring variables: variables are any characteristic or factor that can vary, height, sex, hair colour, age, income, gpa etc, other variables cannot be observed directly. Self-esteem, stress, intelligence: operational definitions translate abstract concepts into something observable and measurable.