PSYCH 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Operational Definition
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Module 3: research strategies: how psychologists ask and answer questions. 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 (we need a conducive environment for experiments) Analyzing whether the data fit with our ideas. Explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events. We can confirm and reject a hypothesis. Testable prediction, often implied by a theory. Carefully worded statement of the exact procedures (operations) used in a research study.
