PSYC 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Simple Random Sample, Convenience Sampling, Observer-Expectancy Effect

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Oliver Hardt

Document Summary

1: gather information, generate a hypothesis, design and conduct experiments, analyze data and formulate conclusions, restart the process. Inductivism several observations used to induce theories. Falsi cationism statement that is capable of being refuted is deduced from a theory. Descriptive methods any means to capture, record, or otherwise describe a group (non-experimental) Observational research type of non-experimental research of behaviour. Naturalist observation recording observations about behaviour as they happen. Coding observational techniques involve systematic assessment & coding of overt behaviour, involves generating categories & noting when & how often behaviour of a certain category was observed. Eld experiments a researched manipulates and controls the conditions of the behaviour under observation. Participant observation research method in which researchers becomes part of the group under investigation: bias, low degree of reliability (unique conditions) Case studies an in-depth analysis of a unique circumstance or individual.