PSY 1101 Chapter Notes -Naturalistic Observation, Scientific Method, Random Assignment

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Brenda Baird

Document Summary

The ways and means of psychology: the scientific method in psychology, ethics, understanding research results. The scientific method in psychology main issues: goal identifying the problem research methods designing an experimental conducting an experiment generalization. The goals of psychology description explanation prediction control. A hypothesis is a statement of what you think you think should happen in your experiment. A set of integrated statements that organizes/predicts results and is more encompassing than a hypothesis. A good theory produces testable predictions which leads to hypotheses. Operational definition: a statement of the procedures (operations) used to define research variables. For example, human intelligence may be operationally defined as what an intelligence test measures in other words, must be quantifiable/measurable a self correcting process for asking questions and observing nature"s answers. Replication: repeating the essence of a research study, usually with different participants in different situations to see whether the basic finding extends to other participants and circumstances.