PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Naturalistic Observation, Confounding, Operational Definition

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

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Everyday problems: theories help with finding the problem related ideas combined together to help explain observations to help understand the behavior better, theories make having the description of behavior to the understanding of it. But it has to be testable: the theory always needs to be tested but not all at once because there may be too many theories to test. Therefore, if the theory doesn"t go as planned then it should be revised or cancelled: steps in scientific investigation, formulate a testable hypothesis need to make a theory. Operational definition- describes actions or operations to measure and control the variable, needs to be made and created precisely: select research methods and design the study make hypothesis into an empirical test. The researched needs to make sure that they have the best strategy that is easy and practical: collect the data collect all data, analyze the data and make conclusions using statistics to analyze the data.