PSYC 2001 Final: PSYC2001 Full Notes for the Entire Year
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Scientific method: comparison group: group that hasn"t been manipulated - used to compare data, confounds: alternative explanations - need to isolate variables, confederate: actor playing specific role, probabilistic: research is probable, present bias: look for desired outcome. Wundt: founder of psychology, 1879: first psychology lab, merged philosophy with experimental methods of physiology, measured the speed of mental processes, studied introspection. Research question to hypothesis: research question: general question about specific topic, hypothesis: tentative answer to research question. Hypothesis doesn"t need to be the one and only reason o o. 4 scientific cycles: theory-data cycle, gaining information and building ideas through empirical and structured observation, measure variables and collect data, data: set of empirical observations, theory: ideas about how variables relate to one another. Good theory: supported by data, falsifiable (theory has the potential of being o supported or not supported), parsimonious (all things being equal, simplest solution is best) o.
