PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Electrophysiology, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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Scientific inquiry = a way of finding answers to empirical questions questions that can be answered by observing the world and measuring aspects of it. 4 basic goals: describing what happens, predicting when it happens, controlling what causes it to happen, explaining why it happens. Scientific method = a systematic procedure of observing and measuring phenomena to answer questions about what happens, when it happens, what causes it, and why. A good theory produces a wide variety of testable hypotheses. 3 main types of study designs: descriptive, correlational, experimental. The designs differ in the extent to which the researcher has control over the variables in the study and therefore in the extent to which the researcher can make conclusions about causation. A variable = something in the world that can be measured and that can vary; it can refer to something that the experiment either measures or manipulates.
