PSYC 1115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Naturalistic Observation, Demand Characteristics, Observer-Expectancy Effect

• School: Langara College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1115
• Professor: Tory Chenier

Document Summary

Openness: psychology is for everyone and by everyone; definitions, instruments, theories, and (sometimes) data are public and available for public scrutiny. Falsifiable hypothesis: when asking questions, psychologists formulate inflexible predictions that can clearly be shown to be false with some observation. Double-blind experiments: when possible, neither the participant nor the person getting the data should be aware of what the hypothesis is. Ethics: data is acquired in a manner that is fair to the participants; data is not faked, plagiarized, or altered in any way. Data (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e (cid:272)olle(cid:272)ted i(cid:374) (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) differe(cid:374)t (cid:449)a(cid:455)s, a(cid:374)d ea(cid:272)h (cid:373)ethod has it"s o(cid:449)(cid:374) pros a(cid:374)d cons. Experimental methods: a set of rules and procedures we should follow in order to gather data. Four broad types: naturalistic observation, case studies, correlational studies, experiments. Naturalistic observation: observing participants in the natural habitat and noting down their behaviours in response to various everyday situations.