PSYC 2000 : SI Exam 1 Review In Class Answers
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Three types: external to what extent can the results be generalized to other people/animals and situations. Office hours: wednesday 10:25 am-12:25: hypothesis vs. Theory: hypothesis testable prediction of what happens under certain circumstances. Theory comprehensive explanations of observable effects: what makes a good theory, as few assumptions as possible, predicts new observations, falsifiable- makes sufficiently precise predictions that evidence could be found to, principle of parsimony: simple explanations contradict it. Tremendous amount of detail: only way to get certain kinds of information, disadvantages, can"t necessarily apply information to others, observation bias. Surveys: series of questions about a topic, advantages, private information. Tremendous amount of data on a large group of people: disadvantages: Office hours: wednesday 10:25 am-12:25: ranges from +1 to -1, represents two things: direction of a relationship & strength, knowing the value of one variable allows researchers to predict the value of the other variable.
