PSYCH 100B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chicken Soup, Scientific Method, Reality Television
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Ex) rainy day and and mom says wear a jacket youll catcha cold. Mom makes yoi chicken noodle soup- you just eat it, you don"t ask for any evidence. Continue to believe it even in the face of counter evidence. Ex) meaning if we do a study and we believe that chocolate is making the child crazy but we find out that it isn"t the chocolate, then we can change the hypothesis. Ex) is there a relationship between behavior and tv violence. Linear: looks like there is a correlational relationship. Correlation: there is a relationship between these two variables. Predictor variable: to make predictions about the criteria variable (tv violence) Positive correlation: you move in the same direction. More you have of the predictor, more you have of criterions. You cannot draw causal conclusions from correlational research. Here is why, it is possible that the violence is causing behavior. But there are two other things we need to consider:
