PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Henry Molaison, Brenda Milner, The Control Group
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Chapter #2 the research enterprise in psychology. Research methods: consist of various approaches to the observation, measurement, manipulation, and control of variables in empirical studies. Investigators cannot control events to isolate cause and event: consequently, whether researchers use experimental or correlational methods, they need some way to make sense of their data. In general, the mean is the most useful because additional statistical manipulations can be performed on it that are not possible with the median or mode. Related, as one does not cause the other, but rather age is the link between the two: thus, correlation is not equivalent to causation. : saying you voted in an election or have donated to charity when you have not: response set, a tendency to respond to questions in a particular way that is unrelated to the content of the questions, e. g.
