PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Operational Definition, List Of Fables Characters, Convenience Sampling

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 202
• Professor: Jordan Pennefather

Document Summary

Way of finding answers to empirical questions; questions that can be answered through observation & measurement. Systematic procedures for observing & measuring phenomena to answer questions. How the scientific method depends on theories, hypotheses, & research. 4 goals of psychological science describe predict control explain. Explanation integrating principles & organizes / predicts behavior or events. Testable prediction, often prompted by theory to enable us that is tested. Internal attributes or characteristics that cannot be directly observed. Identifies a measurement procedure for measuring an external behavior. Uses the resulting measurements as a (day 3) behavior. Research would require us to administer tests of self-esteem & depression. Individuals who score low on a self-esteem test & high on a depression test would confirm our hypothesis. Showed young students a room full of attractive toys: able to play right away & had to wait outside door for 5 minutes children that had to wait engaged in more aggressive play styles.