Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Internal Validity, Meta-Analysis, Dependent And Independent Variables

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

Document Summary

What distinguishes science from pseudoscience is the scientific methods , which was used by chemist and physicists for several centuries to make great progress in determining the laws of physical science. Curiosity, skepticisms, and open-mindedness are driving forces behind scientific inquiry. Horrible crime- 38 bystanders, none of whom called the police. Darley & latane (two psychologist that got together) Hypothesis: rather that apathy, perhaps it was diffusion of responsibility, people think that other people would have called so it is not their responsibility, created an if-then question: If an emergency, if multiple bystanders are present, then the likelihood that any one bystander will intervene is reduced : designed an experiment to test their hypothesis, how did they do it: Measure the time they took to get help: what did they find: More people there is less chance people are going to help. Less people there is more chance people are going to get help.