PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stanford Prison Experiment, Philip Zimbardo, Solitary Confinement

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Ingrid Johnsrude

Document Summary

The scientific study of the causes of behaviour and mental processes and the application for this knowledge to the solution of problems. Social science sociology, economics, political science, cultural anthropology. An operational definition of a concept describes the concept by how it is demonstrated in an observable or measurable way. In other words, an operational definition describes the operation that makes the concept (e. g. , memory) observable and measurable. Validity, reliability, generalizability making predictions based on a recurring experience degree to which the operational definition of a variable accurate designed to measure degree to which an assessment tool produces stable and consist. Formulating a study: formulate hypothesis, design the study, collect the data, analyze data, conclusions. Counterbalancing: repeated measures all participants experience all the conditions, alternating the order in which participants perform in different conditions of an experiment. Stanford prison experiment: august 14 to august 20, 1971. 15$ per day, 7 10 day experiment.