Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Standard Deviation, Null Hypothesis, Dependent And Independent Variables

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

No rigorous standards for for honesty & accuracy honesty & accuracy. Over time, more is learned about processes under study. Convinces by evidence or logical reasoning or hidden. Gets most of its support from selling questionable products. Incorporates existing facts/observations within a single framework (ideally) Testable (freud"s theory often had criticisms- not testable) The more simple, the easier to test and understand. Theories are not necessarily are true, some theories even conflict. Only as legit as the research supporting them. Form hypothesis: tentative explanation or prediction about some phenomenon, gather clues and logically analyze them. Analyze data: analyze information and draw tentative conclusions. Further research and theory building: theory: set of formal statements that explain how and why certain events are related to one another. New hypothesis derived from theory: theory used to develop new hypotheses, which are then tested by conducting additional research and gathering evidence, allows for self-correcting theories.