PSY202H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Confounding, Standard Deviation, Statistical Significance

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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. It is possible to manipulate more than one iv in a single experiment: temp and music while typing, used to find how the effect of one variable depends on the other. In this case, turn to correlational/descriptive research methods.

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