PSYC 2510 Lecture Notes - Railways Act 1921, Informed Consent, Orangutan
2 May 2013
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Lecture #2 - psyc 2510: psychology is the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes, assumption: events are governed by some lawful order. Scientific approach: searching for order: goals, measurement and description, explanation/understanding, prediction, application and control. Stages in the research process: initial observations & review of literature, research question hypothesis (theory, design study, collect & analyze data, evaluate the hypothesis / theory. Principle of falsifiability: a theory must make predictions that are specific enough to expose the theory to the possibility of disconfirmation, the theory should predict not only what will happen, but also what will not happen. Operationalize - translate concepts into testable & measurable ones. Measure - examine ideas in a research design. Scientific methods: procedures for gathering & interpreting evidence in ways that limit sources of error and yield dependable conclusions, two frequent types of methods. Hypothesis people who drink too much beer will suffer impairment in memory: independent variable (i. v. )
