Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Internal Validity, Dependent And Independent Variables, Confounding

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Scientific principles in psychology: curiosity, skepticism, and open-mindedness are driving forces behind scientific inquiry, science involves a continuous interplay between observing and explaining events, identify. Identify a question of interest from personal experiences, news events, books and other sources; scientists observe something that piques their interest and they ask a question about it: gather. Gather information and form a hypothesis; a specific prediction about some phenomenon that often takes form of an if then statement: test. Emergency in a controlled setting and measure whether and how quickly each participate helps the victim: analyze. Researchers analyze the information(data) that they have collected and draw tentative conclusions. They hypothesis is supported and if not, they revise the hypothesis and restart: build. Scientists build a body of knowledge about the topic in question. There is no sure way to determine which-if any- of the alternatives is correct. The displacement of old beliefs and theoretical frameworks by new ones is the essence of science.