Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Social Desirability Bias, Repeated Measures Design

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

Document Summary

Scientific attitudes: curiosity, scepticism, and open-mindedness are driving forces behind scientific inquiry, kitty genovese incident diffusion of responsibility: psychological state in which each person feels decreased personal responsibility for intervening; happens with a group of people. Gathering evidence: steps in the scientific process: step 1. Hindsight (after-the-fact understanding: after-the-fact reasoning, most common method we use to try to understand behaviour in our everyday life, flawed because there may be many possible explanations for behaviour and no way to ascertain which one is correct. Measures of overt behaviour: this is another measurement approach where you record directly observable behaviour, ex. Descriptive research: recording events: descriptive research seeks to identify how humans and other animals behave , particularly in natural settings, case studies, naturalistic observation, and surveys are research methods commonly used to describe behaviour. How religious someone is: benefit allows us to make predictions based on one known variable.