ECON 2000 Chapter : Chapter 3
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Psychology the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Science the use of systematic methods to observe the natural world, including human behavior, and to draw conclusions: goals of psychological science = to describe, predict, and explain behavior. Behavior everything we do that can be directly observed. Mental processes the thoughts, feelings, and motives that each of us experience privately but that cannot be observed directly. Important for testing the assumption that findings for one cultures also generalize to other cultural contexts. Psychologists scientific method: scientific method, observing some phenomenon, variable anything that can change, theory broad idea or set of closely related ideas that attempts to explain observations. Intrinsic rewards relatedness, autonomy, and competence: drawing conclusions, evaluating conclusions. Conducting ethical research: ethics guidelines, a person participating in psychological research should no worse off coming out of the study than he or she was on the way in.
