Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Jane Goodall, Social Desirability Bias

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

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Curiosity, scepticism, open-mindedness drive scientific inquiry. Step 1: identify a question of interest: curiosity, ask a question. Step 3: test hypothesis by conducting research: laboratory experiments and recorded responses. Step 4: analyze data, draw tentative conclusions and report findings: researchers analyze the information they collect, draw tentative conclusions and report their findings to the scientific community. Step 5: build a body of knowledge: they ask further questions, investigate factors, formulate new hypotheses and test those, theory. Set of formal statements that explains how and why certain events are related to one another. Typically specify lawful relations between certain behaviours and. Latan assigned students to one of three conditions on a random basis: each student was alone but was led to believe that, on the intercom system, Flawed because there may be many possible explanations for a behaviour and no way to ascertain whether one is correct. Ex: out of sight- out of mind.