PSY 2105 Lecture 3: Research and Ethics I

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2105
• Professor: Kim Yurkowski

Document Summary

Need for research and ethics in developmental psychology. Refrigerator mother theory lack of maternal warmth to autistic kids was due to lack of social reciprocity in the children. System of rules used by researchers to conduct and evaluate their research. Method used in: designing research, conducting research, evaluating results, communicating findings. Group of statements describing the link between behaviour and the factors that influence that behaviour. Explanation as to how one variable(s) may affect another variable(s) Objective measurements: procedures and subject matter must be well defined, objective methods. Bias reduced issue of confirmation bias. Steps to conducting a research= ask a q design a study collect data, interpret & share results. Goal: record information, establish norms, generate hypotheses for future research: correlation research: Goal: describe the association between two variables. Goal: show a causal relationship between one variable and another: limitations: Observer influence: tenden(cid:272)y of (cid:272)hildren to rea(cid:272)t to an o(cid:271)server"s presence by behaving in unnatural ways.