PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Naturalistic Observation, Hawthorne Effect, Sympathetic Nervous System

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens Pruessner

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What is scientific inquiry: bias: prejudice that may lead to some sort of error because the data are skewed. If everything you hypothesized was true, you might want to move on to a next theory or refine it, if your hypothesis is bad, then you have to look at a whole new theory. The research is never finished, there"s always something to be done and researched. Theory is something that"s vague, has multiple variables and general. And ideally both theory and hypothesis are true. The hypothesis is a more specific statement and is the one being tested. Theory hypothesis, making big step in operationalization. Testing driving ability: driving simulation, but would that test directly the theory that drinking alcohol impairs driving ability. Driving simulator is only a part of what you experience in actual driving and that affects your hypothesis. Your hypothesis would have to be drinking alcohol impairs your ability to drive in a driving simulator.