PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Scientific Method, Confounding, Observer-Expectancy Effect
17 Mar 2014
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O novel (new) idea: original perspective, may stem from direct observation or from interest in phenomena with questions that remain open, a theory is organized set of concepts that explains a phenomenon. Idea that all events- physical, behavioral, and mental- are determined by specific o casual factors that are potentially knowable is called determinism. We seek to answer questions, because we believe there may be a knowable answer: step 2: form a hypothesis, a hypothesis is a tentative and testable statement about the relationship between factors and outcomes (ex. If the data does not support the hypothesis, then how must we rethink our. Observer biases: when experimenter motives and expectations distort evidence it is called observer bias, expectations can lead observers to have different conclusions about an identical event (ex. If researcher"s claims about cause-and-effect are correct, then the iv functions as the cause part of the relationship investigate.
