PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Frequency Distribution, Central Tendency, Confounding

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Anne Bergen

Document Summary

Curiosity, skepticism, and open-mindness are driving forces behind scientific inquiry. Diffusion of responsibility: each person feels decreased personal responsibility for intervening (ex: girl being raped when walking back to apartment, none of her neighbour call 911even though they knew what"s happening) Gathering evidence: steps in the scientific process: initial. If bystanders are present, then a diffusion of responsibility will decrease each bystander"s likelihood of intervening. (if- Helping decreases as the perceived number of bystanders increases. The hypothesis is supported. (if data do not support hypothesis, revise and retest) Impact is developed based on these and other findings: further. Hypothesis: tentative explanation or prediction about some phenomenon. Theory: set of formal statements that explains how and why certain events are related to one another. The theory is tested directly by deriving a new hypothesis and conducting new research. Hindsight (after-the-fact) explanation is common method of trying to understand behaviour (living forwards, understanding backwards)