Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Social Desirability Bias, Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Scientific Method

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mark Holden

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Curiosity: must want to know why". Open mindedness: must be open minded to make conclusions. Good: use hindsight to create testable hypotheses. Bad: past events can be explained in many ways. Relies on prediction, control, and theory building. Good: satisfies curiosity, builds knowledge, generates principles that can be applied to new situations. Less good: prediction does not necessary mean understanding. Identify a question of interest: gather information and form hypothesis, hypothesis: a specific prediction; usually takes the form of an if-then statement, test hypothesis through research, analyze data, draw tentative conclusions, and report findings, build body of knowledge. Hypothesis: a specific prediction; usually takes the form of an if-then statement: tends to deal with a single experiment, basically, a prediction. Theory: set of formal statements that explains how and why certain events are related to one another: much broader than hypotheses; an integrated network of predictions, relate behaviour to causes.