PSYC 2030 Chapter 5: Chapter 5 note.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2030
• Professor: Steve Printer

Document Summary

Reasons of taking this course: process vs. content. Areas of contents of psych: developmental, clinical etc. Process of doing research in these contents area: critical thinking. A logical + rational process of avoiding one"s preconceptions by gathering evidence, contemplating and evaluating alternatives and coming to a conclusion. Always questions, even no evidence still should question if there is an alternatives. When conduct a research, compare to other exist researches and then make a conclusion: r. m. is more setting up a study, so they are method logical settings. There are several reasons to conduct a test: All the method have both advantage and dis~ at the same time: the experimenter various one or more variables while holding others constant. Variables: characteristics that can be changed in value (eg: weight, temperature) Eg: testing the effect of alcohol on memory --- g1: one glass of alcohol, g2: two ~.