PSYC 1010 Chapter 2: Lec 2 Notes

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Doug Mc Cann

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2. 1a: goals of scientific enterprise: goals: o o o. Applying understanding of phenomenon to real world: theory : system of interrelated ideas to explain a set of observations ; integrated apparent isolated facts into a whole o o. Allows to make predictions and suggesting new line of thinking: testing theories o o must be tested to support or disprove. Testing entire theory once may be to complicated. Provide operational definitions of variables in hypotheses defines a variable in the context of the study. Operational definition: actions used to measure / control a variable ; 2 - choose research method design study: research methods consist of various approaches to the observation, measurement, manipulation, and control of variables in empirical studies, choose broad type of data collection: Interview - face to face dialogue: direct observation - observers record behaviours (as objectivley as possible, questionaire - subjects answer a series of questions.