Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Spurious Relationship, Research On The Effects Of Violence In Mass Media, Operationalization

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Erin Heerey

Document Summary

Branches of empirical work: basic research, research designed to build and test basic theoretical constructs intellectual curiosity, prediction, mechanisms, applied research, theoretical ideas as they apply to real world problems (problem solving, understanding, solutions. Formulating hypotheses and theories: theory: organized set of principles used to explain observed phenomena, hypothesis: testable statement about the relationship between two or more variables. Research designs: there are three types of methods, observational method, correlational method, experimental method. Correlational method: systematically measure two or more variables and assess the relation between them, measures how much one can be predicted by the other, correlation coe cient, a calculated statistic that assesses the relationship between two variables, ex. Amount of time given to complete a task. Caroline ku ik !4: other ivs cannot be manipulated by a researcher, but may still potentially cause di erent responses on a dv, ex. gender, self-esteem, di cult/impossible to establish causal in uence, some dvs are relatively straightforward, ex.