Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Dependent And Independent Variables, Migraine, Random Assignment

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: All

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Spiritual awakening video: how to know you have a blocked chakra, you can"t because it"s a faith claim, psychology looks at how we support claims. Freudian theory: hard to test - what exactly is unconscious motivation, behavior theory, better because you can test it, design and execute experiment, w/ variables and controls. Chapter 2: research methods: can"t tell until you run statistics, communicate the results, publish a report in a journal, present a verbal description of results at a convention, discuss several related experiments in book chapter. Summary: psychologists are interested in explaining the causes of behavior, to examine causal relations, they use scientific methods, form hypotheses, manipulate independent variable, measure dependent variable, all other variables should be controlled. If not experiment is confounded: cost of making a mistake could change mattering what the experiment is. Festinger"s: when prophesy fails: what doomsday groups do when the world doesn"t end on dates. In-depth study of an individual or group: ex.