PSY100H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Naturalistic Observation
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Not a huge date/name guy for the exam-hint. More interested in whether you understand the concepts. When studying human psychology we have to be more careful than studying other things ethically etc. Stuff we need for good psychological research: theoretical framework: Is a systematic way of organizing and explaining observations. We need a hypothesis- which flows from the theory or from an important question. Theories are never done, we are looking for the exceptions that might not be found until years down the road. We might prefer the simpler theory if possible but exceptions are important. Means-procedure=same for all subjects except where variation introduced to death hypothesis. The differences must not be about how we ran the study. The results are a result of our intentional manipulation. Because of that we go to great lengths to ensure everything is as standard as possible. We don"t rely on any one study as being confirmative, the be all and end all.
