Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Active Listening, Scientific Method, Kinsey Reports

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

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For next class: methods & bio bases (ch. Active listening important: attend to speaker anticipate. Write the speaker"s comments in your own words. Festinger (1957) came up with a counter-intuitive theory called cognitive. Hypothesis: tentative statement about a relation between 2 or more events. Good theories generate good (testable) hypotheses (e. g. theory of. Freudian theory (unconscious conflict, we have no access to it) Behaviour theory (testable, observable, rewards & punishments: design & execute the experiment variables & control. Dependent measured (see if this variable changes due to changes in iv) (independent changes dependent) Control: we want to say that independent causes dependent. Without proper control, the experiment is confounded (a bust) Letter preference (don"t show the letters, counter balance the letters) More than half: determine the truth . > present a verbal descriptions of results at a convention. > discuss several related experiments in book chapter. Psychologists are interested in explaining the causes of behavior.