PHYS 1010 Lecture Notes - Quality Control, Caffeine, Institutional Review Board
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Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Develop a testable guess - the hypothesis. This requires specifying variables: anything that can vary and can be measured. Define what each variable means to avoid misinterpretation, to understand what you are studying or testing, and to leave a place for critique. Need to replicate (re-test) if you are right. Could have been you: you could have been biased or made a statistical mistake. Write papers and submit them to journals, share your findings. Sometimes, they find a mistake or ask you to make some specific changes to improve the findings. May ask to resubmit after making some changes to make it a trustable finding. Quality control system to avoid false findings being published in the scientific field. Peer-reviewed sources are more trustworthy as others have looked at it; peer review is usually unanimous. *** is abortion wrong? this is not a question that can be scientifically answered.
