PSYC 2120 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Cocktail Party, Behaviorism, Self-Perception Theory
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Day 2 - research methods and social self. Theory - set of principles that explain and predict observed events. Research question: a question that can be answered with a experiment. Hypotheses: testable prediction about the relationships that, an assumption. (look at slide) Participant observation - the researcher put in real situations to understand the phenomenon better (example, researcher wants to learn about a culture, so he goes to live there. Archival research - records of any kind, researchers pull records of accidents, police records, medical records, novel, newspaper article etc This method doestn require you to got to high lengths to get new data. Surveys - a questioner, about attitudes, thoughts, emotions, or behaviour. Can obtain representative samples. (may be difficult to get) if do(cid:374)"t have (cid:396)ep(cid:396)ese(cid:374)tative sa(cid:373)ple the(cid:374) ca(cid:374)t (cid:373)ake a clai(cid:373). + relationship, both variables rise (weight and hieght) Negative , variables go oppisate ways (skip class and marks)
