PSYCO239 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Operant Conditioning, Observational Error, Behavioural Genetics

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO239
• Professor: Andrew Haag

Document Summary

We need to be able to replicate or else con dence comes to question. Assumption: we have the ability to discourse and india and critically evaluate an idea. That process can be very painful or o ensive. Otherwise it becomes empirically very di cult to evaluate data. Mane constructs we talks about are multi-faceted. Important to tap in to those di erent facets within the concept we are proposing. No way of ruling out confounding variables. What it is useful for - generate hypothesis. Maybe, particular question - interested in experiences o some and pets of experience. Those kinds of questions can be sympathetic to qualitative research strategy. Criticism: well done qualitative research can serve to illuminate a phenomenon , draw attention to it. Hel us think about a phenomenon di erently than what we have already thought about. Themes that matter to people as opposed to researcher.