Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Anna O., Mnemonist, Kinsey Reports

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Active listening important: attend to speaker anticipate. Write speaker"s comments in your own words. Scientific method: identify the problem & formulate hypothesis, design & execute the experiment variables & control, determine the truth , communicate the results, identify problem. Hypothesis: tentative statement about a relation between 2 or more events. Compare: freudian theory; theory of relativity is tested more easily than freudian. Sept 18, 2012: design & execute experiment (on exam, identify variable, independent manipulated, dependent measured, we examine if independent variable causes changes in dependent variable, control. More than half preferred the taste of pepsi. Present a verbal description of results at a convention. Discuss several related experiments in book chapter. Psychologists are interested in explaining the causes of behavior. To examine causal relations, they use the scientific method. Form hypotheses-related to theories, come from theories. If not experiment is confounded and experimenter makes a mistakes in causal explanation-serious problem when it comes to human studies (ie; drug studies)