PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Psychological Testing, Normal Distribution, Dependent And Independent Variables

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

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Chapter 2: the research enterprise in psychology: looking for laws: the scientific approach to behavior, goals of the scientific enterprise. Discloses flaws: advantages of the scientific approach. Intolerance for error: clarity and precision enhance communication about important ideas. 2: research methods differing approaches to observation, measurement, manipulation, and control of variables in empirical studies. Independent variable (x) condition or event that an experimenter varies in order to see its impact on another variable: dependant variable (y) thought to be affected by manipulation of the. It may be advantageous to use the same group as the experiment and control group. In this case, the iv is evaluated using an experimental condition and a. Control condition. : typing with and without music, within subject design - subject serve as their own control group, between subject design two or more independent groups of subjects are exposed to a manipulation of an independent variable.