Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Kinsey Reports, Mnemonist, Anna O.

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

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Write speaker"s comments in your own words. Hypothesis: tentative statement about a relation between 2 or more events. Good theories generate good (testable) hypotheses (e. g. theory of relativity -> lots of hypotheses that could be generated) Behaviour theory is better because it can be measured and tested -> generates a testable hypothesis. Freud talking about the unconscious -> difficult to measure and test, though it still does have an impact: design & execute the experiment: variables & control. Identify variables (this will be on the exam) We want to say that changes in the independent variables (and only those changes) cause changes in dependent variables. Without proper control, the experiment is confounded -> not controlled well enough; other things may be the cause for the changes in the dependent variables. Pepsi vs. coke: the order people drank it. Present a verbal description of results at a convention. Discuss several related experiments in a book chapter.