PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pilot Experiment, Action Figure
26 Apr 2016
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Smart soldiers were more fearful and developed disorders than dumb ones possible reason: smarter ones may overanalyze situation. Soldiers came from country adapted better in war than from city possible reason: more luxuries in cities. Average person takes 3 mins to solve the mixed up words but some people underestimate the time after they know the answer -> hindsight. Ex: theory: general and vague idea: theory: experiencing some sort of frustration in the studies, hypothesis: education guess/prediction (use operational definitions) Operational: being very specific in defining your terms (ex. Example of operational: putting smokers in a room of cigarettes and chaining them down to not smoke. Operationalize aggression: number of times kicking or punching in specific time. Until you do research on every single aggression, you cannot say you proven the theory, you can only say your results align with the theory.
