PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psych, Distressing, Confounding

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Agnieszka Kopinska

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Scienti c method : is based on empirical data meaning they do it based on things they have directly seen themselves: a general theory (constantly changing) will lead to a hypothesis (directly testable) which is an educated guess. Methodology: survey method is a questionnaire that is used to determine a persons attitudes, beliefs and behaviours. Disadvantages = honesty, require large samples/numbers: to avoid disadvantages you must conduct a pilot study which is a smaller version of your study in the very beginning to iron out some problems. In order to generalize from a sample to the population the sample must be representative of the population. representative meaning it is a mini version of the entire tested population. Tuesday, september 15, 2015: ex. if testing something about teens in canada, you cant only test teens in the. Toronto you must get results from teens out of the city also.