Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Dissonance, Active Listening, Mnemonist

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

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Getting the most from the lecture: active listening is important. 3. write in your own words: attend to clues , ask questions. Scientific method: identify the problem and formulate the hypothesis. Hypothesis: tentative statement about a relation between two or more events. Good theories generate good (testable) hypotheses e. g. theory of relativity. Testable (looks at reward and punishment: design and execute the experiment (variables and control) Without proper control the experiment is confounded (independent cannot cause the dependent: determine the truth . Statics help determine this: communicate the results. 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. Collecting information about behavior without trying to change it. Collecting information about behavior through surveys and questionnaires ex. Luria"s s (the mind of a mnemonist, the man who remembered everything)