PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter Module 2.1: Demand Characteristics, Social Desirability Bias, Falsifiability
27 Jan 2018
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Module 2. 1 principles of scientific research psychology- 2017-09-12. The key terminology related to the principles of scientific research. The concepts of reliability and validity to examples. Whether anecdotes, authority figures, and common sense are reliably truthful sources of information. It assumes that certain facts about the world can be observed and tested independently from the individual who describes them. That their knowledge of the event is shaped by prior beliefs, expectations, experiences and even their mood. It is based on measurements that are objective, valid and reliable. ): the measure of an entity or behaviour that, within an allowed margin of error, is consistent across instruments and observers. ): the object, concept or event being measured. ): are statements that describe the procedures (or operations) and specific measures that are used to record observations. Depression could be operationally defi(cid:374)ed as (cid:862)a s(cid:272)ore of (cid:1006)(cid:1005) or higher o(cid:374) the be(cid:272)k depressio(cid:374)
