Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Repeated Measures Design, Internal Validity, Confounding

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mike Atkinson

Document Summary

Seeks to identify how humans and other animals behave: provides info about the diversity of behaviour, gives clues about potential cause and effect relations. An in-depth analysis of an individual, group or event. Hope to discover principles to behaviour that are true in general. Through observation, interviews, psychological tests, physiological recordings, and task performances. Advantages: when a rar phenomenon occurs, this method allows scientists to study it closely. It may challenge the validity of a theory or widely held scientific belief: provided important insight. Disadvantages: poor method for determining cause and effect relations, findings may not generalize to other people or situations, observer bias may occur. Researcher observes behaviour as it occurs in a natural setting. Habituation: participants ignoring and adapting to the presence of the observer. Info about a topic is obtained thru questionnaires/interviews: a subset of individuals drawn from a larger pop of interest.