PSY-0001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Operational Definition, David H. Hubel, Institutional Review Board
22 Sep 2015
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You are responsible for things that are in the book as well as things from the lecture, Kim davis clerk in kentucky (has denied approving same-sex marriage) Largest predictors of failed marriage: contempt, criticism, defensiveness, stonewalling. Theory model of concepts that you revise and change overtime. Hypothesis specific, testable, and narrower than the theory: a good hypothesis has every part of it well-defined so that it" Operational definition descriptions of all aspects of the hypothesis. Children who play violent video games behave more aggressively. Define: violent games, children"s age, what"s a video game, more aggressively than who, define aggression, etc. Science"s 4 primary goals: description, prediction, control, explanation. How hypotheses are tested: form a hypothesis, conduct a lit review (look for approved empirical methods and statistics and peer-reviewed research, design a study, conduct a study, analyze the data, report the data, replicate the results. Independent and dependent variables a: experimental and control groups, random sampling and random assignment.
