PSYO 1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Internal Validity, Informed Consent, Operational Definition

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYO 1011
• Professor: Dr.Duffy

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Observationo the case study method: an in depth study of one person (or small number of people) Ex, wolf man: man had a dream of a tree outside his house with 5 wolves on it. The book explains what it means. -anna o: was first treated for hysteria. The scientific methodo identifying the problem: designing the experiment, hypothesis: a statement of what you think should happen in your experiment. Educated guess: theory: a statement designed to explain a set of results that is more encompassing than a hypothesis, designing an experiment: operational definition, independent variable, dependent variable, experimental group and control group. Correlations coefficients measure the direction and strength of a correlation [(r) ranges from -1. 0 to +1. 0: inferential stats: used to establish the casual relationship between variables. Manipulation: create an artificial pattern of variation in a variable in an experiment. Dependent variable: the variable that is measured in study. o drawing conclusions: