Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Social Desirability Bias, Dependent And Independent Variables, Naturalistic Observation

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

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Scienti c attitudes diffusion of responsibility, a psychological state in which each person feels decreased personal responsibility for intervening. Step 4: analyze data, draw tentative conclusions, and report findings. A good theory has several important characteristics: incorporates existing facts and observations within a single broad framework. Testable supported by ndings of the research law of parsimony: two theories can explain and predict the same phenomena equally well, the simpler theory is the preferred one. In this experiment, we measure how many mistakes a person makes while performing a task. Psychologists develop and use specialized tests to measure many types of variables. For example, personality tests, intelligence tests, near psychological tests. > population- consists of all the individuals about whom we are interested in drawing a conclusion. > sample- subset of individuals drawn from the larger population of interest representative sample- one that re ects the important characteristics of the population random sampling- every member of the population has an equal.