Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Naturalistic Observation, Social Desirability Bias, List Of Fables Characters

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Wolfe/ Quinlan

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Hindsight approach trying to understand after the fact it has happened. Scientist don"t like hindsight understanding because they want to predict the outcomes. Scientific method: identify or observe, hypothesis make a prediction, test your hypothesis by doing research, observe your results, revise do further research, make a possible theory or make a new hypothesis. Theory is a set of formal statements that explains how and why certain events are related to one another. Law of parsimony two theories can explain and predict the same phenomena equally well, the simpler theory is thus the preferred one. Variable any change in characteristic or factor that can vary. Behaviour is observed where it occurs disadvantages not a controlled environment, bias view. You can vary certain situation to get different outcomes. Data collection: self report asks people to report on their own knowledge, beliefs, feelings, experiences. it can be done by questionnaires or surveys.