PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Behaviorism
27 Jun 2014
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Improve world; better knowledge improves ability to deal with it different problems: need truth, how do social psychologists answer their own questions, scientific method steps, states problem, formulate testable hypothesis, design study to test hypothesis and collect data, test hypothesis by confronting it with data, reports study to scientific community, scientific theories, theories composed of constructs that are linked together in some, within subjects design: participants are exposed to all levels of the logical way independent variable, between subjects design: participants exposed to only one level of iv. the independent variable. Independent variable: any observable event that causes a person to do something; values created by researcher: dependent variable: any observable behavior a person produces, operational definition: classifies theoretical constructs in terms of observable operations, procedures, and measurements, confederate: someone secretly working for researcher, according to frustration aggression theory you get more upset ix.
