PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Naturalistic Observation, Infor, Operational Definition

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: Mattitiyahu Zimbler

Document Summary

Operational definition: how you"re defining power or love or other less known concepts. Test your hypothesis by doing an experiment. Analyze your data and draw a conclusion. What types of research designs do psychologists use to collect data. Archival: use existing infor from an appropriate data source. Naturalistic observation: observe naturally occurring behavior in a specific set of situations. Survey research: choose a sample to represent a larger population and ask them series of questions. Case study: intensively investigate an individual or small group. Experimental: expose participants to different conditions and compare their responses. Correlation: two sets of variables are examined to determine whether they are associated. Range from perfect 1 to perfect -1. Structuralism- record your thoughts, map out the thought process used to understand structure of the mind. William james, functionalism and stream of consciousness: why do people act the way they do. Activities of the mind (thinking feeling learning remembering) serve us functionalism.