PS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: List Of Fables Characters, Standard Deviation, Field Experiment
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Goals of the scientific enterprise: measurement and description. Develop measurement techniques that make it possible to describe behavior, clear and precise: understanding and prediction. Hypothesis a tentative statement about the relationship. Variables any measurable conditions, events characteristics, or. Hypothesis prove theories, must have at leave two variables, between two or more variables behaviours that are controlled or observed in a study state the relationship (if then : application and control. Psychologist might use knowledge of roots and nature of violence in relationships to design a treatment program. Theory a system of interrelated ideas used to explain a set of observations understanding of behaviour. Make a leap from the description of behavior to the. Generates new predictions and suggest new lines of inquiry. Confidence in theories grows when derived hypothesis are supported by their findings. Provide operational definitions of the relevant variables. Operational definitions describe the actions or operations that will be.
