PSY379H5- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 50 pages long!)

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For ex, have 1 event, a, is related to another event, b: at least one of those events have to be measurable. Research methods - 4 main methods for doing research: experimental method, correlational observation, naturalistic observation, case history. The experimental method: establishing the relationship between a set of circumstances and behavior. Interested in rel between a set of circumstances and be. Ideally would like to specify exhaustively all the set of circumstances: but there is a paradox. If exhaustively specify the circumstances will not generalize as easily: always a trade-off, the more control, the more precise but the less it will generalize. Independent variables: what most interested as psychologists, what is being manipulated (changing) in the experiment. For ex, whether intensity of light affects how quickly react and press a button: high, medium or low intensity. Independent bc it is ind of what participant does: dependent variables, a behavior. Find 1 behavior that we are going to measure.

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