PSYC 1010 Lecture : lecture notes since the beginning

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

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Research methods: survey method: set of written questions that are used to determine people"s beliefs, attitudes and behaviours. > make questionnaires anonymous problems: psychologists test a sample of the population in order to get the opinions. *pilot study: handing out questionnaire and seeing if there are. If there are problems, fix them before you conduct the study. of whole population. In order to generalize from the sample to the population, the sample must be representative of the population. How to ensure the sample is representative of the whole population: Random sampling: each person in the population has an equal chance of being chosen for the sample. When conducting a survey, you usually need a lot of people. Naturalistic observation: is usually used when you want to measure describe behaviour as people are behaving naturally in their natural environment. Advantages or: people are behaving naturally, no control over the situation, observer bias.