Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Job Satisfaction, Factor Analysis, Internal Validity

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- Dehoog

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Maintain rigorous standards for honesty & accuracy. Failures are searched for and studied closely. Over time, more is learned about processes under study. A claim, belief or practice that does not adhere to scientific method, cannot be reliably tested or lacks scientific status. No rigorous standards for honesty & accuracy. & why certain events are related to one another: much broader than hypotheses. Integrated network of prediction- existing facts/observations within single framework: organizes info in a meaningful way, testable (freud"s was not, predictions supported by new research findings, law of parsimony- simple as possible, not necessarily true- falsifiable. Any characteristic/factor that can vary: how you are specifically going to define/measure your variable. Sample: takes abstract concepts to observable and measurable. All the individuals about whom we are interested in drawing a conclusion. Part of a population, or group, that a researcher wants to study and make inferences about.