Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Social Desirability Bias, Confounding, Cell Group

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

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The scientific method was used to make great progress in determining the laws of the physical sciences. Diffusion of responsibility a psychological state in which each person feels decreased personal responsibility for intervening. Steps for the scientific method (john darley & bibb latane): identify a question of interest from different sources (ex. ), scientists observe something that interests them and ask a question about it: gather information and form hypotheses scientists determine whether any studies, theories, and other information that might help answer their question already exist. Then they form a hypothesis: test hypothesis by conducting research they staged an. Emergency in the lab and recorded people"s responses to people discussing college experiences: analyze data, draw tentative conclusions, and report findings . Darley and latane submitted their findings to a journal. Theory a set of formal statements that explains how and why certain behaviors and their causes.