Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Scientific Method, Anna O., Kinsey Reports

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

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Hypothesis: tentative statement about a relation between two or more events. Theory: collection of hypotheses, an organizing system, more general and elaborate. Behaviour theory is better because it is easily testable, it is not easy to test freudian theory. Elaborate on each: design and execute the experiment. Control: without proper control, the experiment is confounded. The manipulation may have caused the change or it may have been another factor: determine the truth . Present a verbal description of results at a convention. Psychologists are interested in explaining the causes of behaviour. To examine casual relations, the use the scienti c method. If not the experiment is confounded and experimenter makes a mistake in casual explanation. Collecting information about behaviour without trying to change it. Can be non-participant or participant: survey methods. Collecting information about behaviour through surveys and questionnaires. E. g. kinsey report on sexual behaviour: case study methods. E. g. luria"s s , breuer"s anna o: correlational methods.