PSYCH-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: The Need, Psych, Dependent And Independent Variables
9 Sep 2020
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Humans cannot rely solely on intuition and common sense. Hindsight bias, overconfidence, and our tendency to perceive patterns in random events often lead us to overestimate our intuition. Scientific inquiry can help us sift reality from illusion. Scientific method is the process of testing ideas about the world by. Setting up situations that test our ideas. If the data do not fit our ideas, then ideas are modified and tested again. Analyzing whether the data fit with our ideas. Theory: explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events. Hypothesis: testable prediction, often implied by a theory. Operational definition: carefully worded statement of the exact procedures (operations) used in a research study. Replication: repeating the essence of a research study, usually with different participants in different situations, to see whether the basic finding extends to other participants and circumstances. Descriptive research is a systematic, objective observation of people.
