PSYS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Informed Consent, Institutional Review Board, Human Hair Color
16 Sep 2016
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August 30, 2016: tactics of psychological research, what makes psychology a science . A basic assumption is that behavior is lawful (not random), and results from natu- The basic scientific activity is the direct observation of behavior, with an interplay between observation and hypothesis development. How is this different from common sense: psychological research generally involves determining and trying to understand the relationship between 2 or more variables. What is the relationship between age and handedness? = a psychological question. Younger (a. 2. b. 1) you are the more likely you are to be right handed you are the more likely you are to be left handed. Often the first approach used in a new area. Provide voluminous information, useful in identifying or illustrating general prin- ciples, formulating specific hypotheses. Descriptions of ongoing behavior are less subject to retrospective distortion (a. 2. a. 1) Observation can also take place under standardized conditions (a. 2. b. 1)
