PSY100Y5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Behaviorism, Natural Selection, Occipital Lobe
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Hypothesis that flows from the theory or from an important question. Methodology depends on the situation and environment. The same procedure for all the same subjects, except where variation is introduced to test a hypothesis. A standardized procedure is important so that people can replicate the study. Small sample that"s representative of the population. Procedure that"s sensible and relevant to the circumstances outside the laboratory. The idea that your sample represents the population, biased or not. Procedure is sensible and relevant: ecological validity, external validity: important that. Justify why you believe that they represent the population. there is some realism to the results. We need to be able to apply it in a real-world simulation. Measures that are reliable (consistent) and valid. Produce the same results from one subject to the next. We need to ensure that our measures are consistent. As well, they are valid: they measure what we think we are measuring, and we prove that it"s right.
