PSY 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dependent And Independent Variables, Psy, Otto Loewi

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 205
• Professor: Palfai

Document Summary

The scientific study of behavior and the physiological and cognitive processes that under lie it. 5. formulate a testable hypothesis select a research method exp, case studies, naturalistic, observations. Surveys pros and cons to each collect the data analysza data and draw conc report findings. Example: we want to find out how crowds noise level effect teams performance. Extraneous variable: if game is home or away, how many ppl are in the audience, other teams performance. Entire group youre interested in: sample. Subset of a population: sample should be random. Advantages and disadvantages of experimental research: advantages. Causual conculasions can be drawn: weaknesses. Correlation: when 2 variables are related to eachother they are correlates, correlation is expressed as a number betweem +1 and -1. Numbers close to +1 means a positive relationship. Numbers close to -1 means a negative relationship. The more u exercise, the less u way.