Psychology 1000 Lecture 3: Lecture 3 Research Methods

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

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The state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change. Floats because it is completely pure (in reality - air bubbles. Design & execute the experiment variables & control. Theory tentative statement about a relation between 2 or more events. Good theories generate good (testable) hypothesis e. g. theory of relativity. Compare: freudian theory, behaviour theory: design & execute experiment: o o. Without proper control the experiment is confounded (or useless). So you must control the independent: determine the truth o o. >>> statistics (#"s: communicate results o o o. Present a verbal description of results at a convention. Psychologists are interested in explaining the causes of behavior. To examine causal relations, they use the scientific method. If not, experiment is confounded and experimenter makes a mistake in causal explanation. Research methods: o o o o: observational methods. Collecting information about behaviour without trying to change it.