PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Illusory Correlation, Married People, Random Assignment

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

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Theory: an explanation using integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviours or events: it links facts w/ deeper principles which offers a useful summary, can connect the dots to get a clear picture. Ex theory about the effects of sleep on memory: observe time and time again that people with good sleeping habits answer correctly in class and do well on tests, therefore summarize that good nights sleep improves memory. Our principle summarizes the list of facts. !1: results con rm or revise or reject theory. Sometimes interpretation of observations can lead to a theory based conclusion. Friday, october 28, 2016: having theorized that more sleep leads to better memory this is what we may see in the results, to avoid this psychologists use operational de nitions of procedure and concepts. It is a carefully worded statement of exact procedures used in research. Ex. human intelligence may be operational de ned as what intelligence test measures.