PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Headache, Cell Culture, Energy Drink
16 Jan 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Research methods in science 1 - m. 1: the scienti c method ensures reliable and meaningful research, standardizes the procedure of research and reduces bias, includes 7 steps: 6) report the ndings: make formal presentations/publish scholarly articles. 7) revise existing theories: incorporate new nding into our understanding of the world, paradigm shift: dramatical change in the way we think about a speci c topic, ex. someone challenged the thinking of earth being at centre of universe. Thursday, october 26, 2017: amount of enzyme added to cell culture, dependant variable: variable being observed by scientists, cell growth. %2: assigning subjects to either group at random. Blinding occurs when participants do not know which group they belong to or which experiment they are receiving. Researcher may unintentionally or intentionally in uence participants towards results they hope to achieve. This can be accounted for by introducing a double blind experiment, both experimenter and participants are unaware of conditions.
