PSYC 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Redone, Psychological Bulletin, Falsifiability
24 Oct 2016
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Observation of the world around us (you see a car accident that is initiated by a female driver and you want to know if women are poorer drivers than men) Theories (theories are constantly being redone by other research . Practical problems (teenage girls bullying in schools do research to decide your research). Hypothesis: a tentative idea or question that is waiting for evidence to support or refute it (the statement that you are making at the beginning of how to address this practical problem) Prediction: a statement that makes an assertion concerning what will occur in a particular research investigation (related to the hypothesis) Theory: system of logical ideas proposed to explain phenomena or. Hypotheses relationships between them (this term is often confused with hypothesis). There has to be something testable and the relationship between the variables can"t be so intertwined.
