PSYC 100 Lecture 3: Lecture 3.doc

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Daniel Levitin

Document Summary

Confidentiality involves the right of privacy and anonymity. Sometimes in case studies, get permission from subject to use their initials. By this, researchers also guarantee that the participant will be honest with the responses. The four goals of scientific research: description of behavior. It involves descriptive studies where the nature of the world. Here collect data and try to describe a phenomenon. This is can be done in a pain study where it would describe the baseline of pain: prediction of behavior. Often experimental psychologists will observe behavior in a class room or a specific setting. This will provide them with a hypothesis of what kind of data they would have to collect. E. g. professor studied kids with william syndrome (genetic abnormality). For a whole week, kids were observed and researchers spoke to their parents. After the descriptive study, experimenters try to predict future behavior that was observed: determination of the causes of behavior.