PS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Standard Deviation, Statistical Inference, Naturalistic Observation
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Basic assumption: events are governed by some lawful order (nothing is random or predictable) there is an order for things. We can establish an understanding of human beings. Goals: measurement and description intelligence and school, understanding and prediction, application and control (certain people get to do things while others don"t) Evolution predicts certain things (have a hypothesis) if rocks are a certain size or age in the. Atlantic ocean bottom we should find this and this. Findings are shared through reports at scientific meetings and in scientific journals- periodicals that publish technical and scholarly material. Advantages of the scientific method: clarity of communication and relative intolerance of error. ** empirical: derived from or guided by experience or experiment: research methods: general strategies for conducting scientific studies. Experiment research expirimental group -> people who get the asprin: experiment: manipulation of one variable under controlled conditions so that resulting changes in another variable can be observed.
