PSYA01H3 Chapter 1: Psychology Chapter 1 notes!
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Psychology: the scientific study of behaviour, thought and experience, and how they can be affected by physical, mental, social and environmental factors. Scientific method: the way of learning the world through collecting observations, developing theories to explain them, and using the theories to make predictions. Conducting science does not mean to just perform an experiment, it means to follow the scientific method. This involves dynamic interaction between hypothesis testing and constructing theories. Hypothesis: a testable prediction about process that can be observed or. Specific predictions that can test the theory or, more realistically, specific parts of that theory. If the hypothesis is not supported by the results of a well-designed experiment, then researchers may have to rethink elements of the theory. Hypothesis test: a statistical method of evaluation whether differences among groups are meaningful, or could have been arrived at by chance alone.
