[PSYCH 101] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (64 pages long)

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

Objectivity: keeping emotions and individual opinions separate from research, focusing only on testable and scientifically proven information, there should be no relationship or effect from the researcher to the data being produced. However, there is always room for variability, like in between different scales. These are large portions of the population: selecting the right sample is important, which is why it preferred they are random samples, where each participant has an equal opportunity of being included and have different characteristics. Certain animals may behave differently: hawthorne effect: the change being observed is not due to the change in variables, but the pressure or feeling that they are being observed, an example is with drugs and treatments. Patients who are on a certain treatment may show improvement not because of the drug itself but due to the placebo effect: ways to reduce biasness, anonymity: keeping the responses completely unknown and confidential.