PSYC325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scientific Method, Attention Span, Ethology

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC325
• Professor: Hubbard Julie

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Sample: who are your participants? (most likely children, are they representative of the larger population, small groups in one specific area are not representative of a large. Generalization population: must be able to say that you are studying a population that is smaller than the overall population, but you included so many settings that it is a good generalization. Reliability: the extent to which a measure yields consistent results across time and observers/data collectors, temporal stability. If i measure something and then come back and measure it in the same way, the results should be similar. If 2 people collect data from the same child at the same time, they will get similar results. Psychophysiology: measures different physiological factors, heart rate, brain activity, sweating, etc. in relation to activities and feelings. Experimental: where you manipulate something in the study and measure the effect of that manipulation.