PSY 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Observer-Expectancy Effect, Psychological Testing, Operational Definition
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Empirical approach evidence-based method that draws on observations and experimentation. Make a prediction based on the hypothesis. Iterate: use the results to make new hypotheses or predictions. Case study: detailed description of a particular being studied or treated that can be used to form a research hypothesis. Laboratory: watch behaviors in a more controlled environment. Limitations: cannot decipher cause and effect, lab can cause others. Psychological test: measures personality traits, emotional states, interests to act differently abilities and values. Objective: you know what you are being measured on. Survey: questionnaires that ask about attitudes and opinions. Examines assumptions, appraises that source, discerns hidden bias, evaluates evidence and assesses conclusions. Dependent variable: outcome that is measured, changes based on independent variable. Confounding variables: factors that might influence outcome. Operational definition: exact procedures used in study. Wilhelm wundt (who was he, what did he do?) Sigmund freud (who was he, what did he believe) How we think determines how we act.
