Kinesiology 1080A/B Lecture 15: Kin lecture 15 - February 15

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 1080A/B
• Professor: Matthew Heath

Document Summary

Science: a process of gathering knowledge about the world, asking questions about the world, making hypotheses about nature of things and testing these hypotheses no hypotheses the(cid:374) they a(cid:396)e fishi(cid:374)g (cid:894)wo(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:271)e good s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:895) Science is just one was of acquiring knowledge: research methods. Experiment: tool for determining nature of relationship between variables, confirm or disconfirm hypothesis, manipulate and observe the effects of a variable on another variable, manipulate type of stimulus (visual or auditory, observe effects of stimulus on reaction time. E. g. interested in visual rather than auditory: manipulating the type of stimulus. Change in dependent variable is assumed to be a result of change in independent variable. Important to look in the measurement section/results (can help you see what they measured: what are the independent variables and the dependant variables, we will get two abstracts on test 2 and you have to identify the variables.