PSYC 2360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Falsifiability, Leon Festinger, Social Comparison Theory

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

Document Summary

A specific and falsifiable prediction regarding the relationship between or among two or more variables. States the existence of a relationship between the variables of interest and the specific direction of that relationship. Observing violent television shows will cause increased aggressive behavior. Any attribute that can assume different values- for instance, among different people or across different times or places. How long you don"t shower vs how good you smell. Using existing research (limiting conditions and conflicting findings) Inductive method; getting ideas about the relationships among variables by observing specific facts. We compare to others who we see as similar.