PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dependent And Independent Variables, Statistical Hypothesis Testing
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How do psychologists do research: scientific method. Takes place in laboratory: artificial (not like laboratory setting) Use reasoning & logic to apply: empirical. Functions of science: looking for verifiable truth, see it over and over again, hypothesis testing (psychology, y variable is verified with x1, x2, x3, etc, y is dependent variable. What you are studying: all factors are independent. Different forms of independent variables: stimulus environment (lighting, temperature, etc, organismic the person (intellectual power, etc, response past responses help us with future responses.
