PSYC 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Likert Scale, Demand Characteristics, Informed Consent
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What is research: research is the method of asking and answering a question with a set of systematic procedures which assist researchers in avoiding biases. Research process: theory: an integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed events, fact, hypothesis: testable predictions about the relationship that may exist between events. How you view the variables will interact with one another. Signs of a good theory: effectively summarizes wide range of observations or instances. Makes clear predictions we can use to: Testing hypotheses on with theories are based off. Test hypotheses: correlational: observe natural observations. Examine whether the occurrence of a is related to the occurrence of b. Testing to see whether if variable a and b are related. Variables have to be (1) observable and (2) measurable. No relation: 0 relationship between the 2 variables. Problem: do not know whether: a -> b, a
