PSYC 2360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dependent And Independent Variables, Hindsight Bias, Naturalistic Observation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2360
• Professor: David Stanley

Document Summary

Provide methods for improving the quality of our lives. People think they know things they don"t really know (job interview & spilling coffee) Hindsight bias (birds of a feather flock together vs opposites attract) The tendency to think we could have predicted something we probably could not have predicted. A set of assumptions, rules, and procedures scientists use to conduct research. Objective (whoever is measuring it and doing it, the results have to be the same) Science must be based on what has come before it. Aversive racism and selection decisions: 1989 and 1999. Want to contribute to creating solutions to problems that face human beings (applied research) Basic research (answers fundamental questions about the nature of behavior. Example: role of study strategy in recall of mixed lists of common and rare words. Applied research (addresses issues in which there are practical problems and potential solutions.