PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2.1: Falsifiability, Hawthorne Effect, Western Electric

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

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Five characteristics of quality scienti c research: based on measurements that are objective, valid and reliable. Model 2. 1: operational definitions: statements that describe the procedures and specific measurements that are used to record observations. Generalizability of results: psychologists are primarily interested in understanding behaviour in general, e. g how most people will respond to this stimuli and station. Model 2. 1: generalizability: one set of results can be applied to other situation, individuals or events, e. g. i did good in music, doesn"t mean others will do good in music course, thus this. Demand characteristics and participant behaviour: research of psychological studies should provide uncontaminated views of behaviours, however, researchers enter the research environs with a curiosity, and thus leads to a biased results. Model 2. 1: a process in which papers submitted for publication in scholarly journals are read and critiqued by experts in the specific field of study, peer review involves two main tasks: