Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Normal Distribution, Distance Education, Random Assignment

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Studying behaviour scienti cally: scienti c attitudes, scienti c process, correlational research. Identify question of interest: gather information, form hypothesis, test hypothesis , conduct research, analyze data, draw tentative conclusions, build a body of knowledge. Two approaches: hindsight, after the fact , and common sense, prediction, control, and scienti c method. Good theories: organize information in a meaningful way, are testable, have prediction supported by research, conform to law or parsimony. Non-scienti c theories: make no predictions, un-testable, cant be falsi ed. Theories surrounding god with no scienti c evidence provided. Kitty genovese murder: horrible crime that was witnessed by 38 bystanders where none one called the police . police believed no one called due to bystander apathy, darley and latane came up with the solution of the bystander. Bystander effect - responsibility to act is diffused among lots of people. Dependent variable-amount of time it takes for a person to get help/