PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Naturalistic Observation, Operational Definition, Social Desirability Bias

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Alice munro: 1st canadian resident and 13th woman to win the nobel peace prize. Emotions play a key role in her work. Three sets of interrelated goals: measurement and description. Develop measurement techniques to describe behaviour clearly and precisely: understanding and prediction. Hypothesis: tentative statement about the relationship between two or more variables: measurable conditions, events, characteristics, or behaviours that are controlled by a study: application and control. Put to practical use to solve everyday problems. System of interrelated ideas used to explain a set of observations. Theory construction is gradual, iterative process that is always subject to revision. Steps in scientific investigation: formulate a testable hypothesis, a prediction and operational definitions. Duton and aron predict increased arousal would heighten sexual attraction of research participants. Operational definition: describes actions or operations that will be made to measure or control variable. Thematic apperception test: reviewing the scientific literature to see how people are testing the theory.