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

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

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Cognitive dissonance: you justify your actions in your mind (i"m a good person, i lied for a dollar, therefore i didn"t really lie it was okay) 1: design and execute the experiment, variable and control, determine the truth", communicate the results, identify the problem: Hypothesis: tentative statement about a relation between 2 or more events. Good theories generate good (testable) hypotheses: ex. Unconscious motivation, unresolved conflicts: behaviour theory. Better because it is testable: design and execute the experiment. Identify variables: independent (manipulated, what is different, dependent (measured) Control: we want to say that independent causes dependent, we can"t say this without control, without proper control, the experiment is confounded. We don"t know whether it was our manipulation that caused the result or something else: ex. The order in which you drink it. More than half" is a meaningless statistic there is a difference between the letter m" and q": determine the truth.