Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Murder 2, Pseudoscience

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

Document Summary

Peer-reviewed (before anything is published, it is reviewed by other psychologists) Over time, more is learned about about processes under study. Pseudoscience (shit that is made to sound scientifical ex. Convinces by faith or belief: curiosity, skepticism and open-mindedness are driving forces behind scientific inquiry, ex. Kitty genovese murder 2 psychologists (darley and latane) reasoned that the presence of multiple bystanders produced a diffusion of responsibility, a psychological state in which each person feels decreased personal responsibility for intervening. Definitions: theories, frameworks for explaining events, formal statements that explain how and why certain events are related to one another, theories are much broader than hypotheses. In psychology, theories typically specify lawful relations between certain behaviours and their causes: ex. Height, hair colour, age, income etc. : the factor you want to explore, operational definition, how you are specifically going to define your variable.