PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Scientific Method, Psych, Operationalization
8 Sep 2020
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Use the scientific method to test our hypotheses. We use lewin"s equation: b= f(p,e) to understand why we do the things we. How a person construes an object will influence how they interact with it do. Interested in the classic debates about human behavior. You have to be able to be wrong. An integrated set of statements that describes, predicts, or explains behavior. Ex: venting frustration makes one feel better - freud. Specific, testable and disconfirmable statement about the behavior we want to study or theory we want to test. Ex: throwing a chair at one"s boss will result in a positive mood . The conceptual representation of behaviors or the phenomenon around which research is based. Ex: throwing a chair at one"s boss . *** goals of science *** (helpful for writing assignment #1) Observer bias (looking for something = more likely to see it) Determine how much and in what way two pre-existing variables are related.
