Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter Chapter 2: Naturalistic Observation, Confounding, Operational Definition

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

The scientific method was used by physicist and chemists for several centuries to make great progress in determining the laws of the physical sciences. Psychologists took much longer to adopt the scientific method for behaviour science because the subject matter is not as tangible of that in the physical sciences. What key scientific attitudes did darley and latane display? (recall kitty genevose case [walked home from work alone and was stabbed and rapped and no one helped her even though people saw the incident ). They were curious, open-minded and skeptic of the incident. They reasoned that the multiple bystanders produced diffusion of responsibility the professors were curious and hypothesized. Hypothesis: a specific prediction about some phenomenon that often takes the form of an if-then statement. Theory: a set of formal statements that explains how and why certain events are related to one another.