PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2.3: Naturalistic Observation, Scatter Plot, Random Assignment

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Psychology research always begins with a research question. Then they create a research design which is a set of methods that tells us how the hypothesis will be tested. How researchers will organize the stimuli used to test the hypothesis 2. All research designs include: variables, operational definitions, and data. Research questions must be very specific and descriptive (ex. How many hours per week does how the typical university student spend on homework?) These questions would lead to future studies to decide how and why this occurs. To answer these questions researchers gather data using one or more of the following designs: case studies, naturalistic observation, and surveys and questionnaires. Case study an in-depth report about a single person, group, or event. This method of data collection allows us to gain a lot of background information that allows us to further better our understanding about why something occurred.