PSYB01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tooth Brushing, Psycinfo, Statistical Inference
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Look for potential theoretical framework, specific field you"re interested in and literatures related to it. Make a hypothesis based upon the gap, controversies, and/or population in the literature: research idea: topic -> library research -> hypothesis. >go to library or psychinfo and search stress and college students . *first step: define stress how will you define it? (involves a lot of different lens) >body negative responses towards stress (getting sick easily, high blood pressure, etc) >behaviours in response to stress (not doing what you usually do in your daily life, such as not doing daily workout due to stress) >mood change due to stress (get angry easily, etc) >responsibilities for tasks your assigned for (meeting deadlines, etc: define and measure variables: must be reliable and valid. Reliability (consistency) -> measures has to be consistent (look for standardized measure on the literatures before constructing your one study)