PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Jane Goodall, Descriptive Statistics, Standard Deviation

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Doug Mc Cann

Document Summary

Chapter 2 the research enterprise in psychology. Case study read again for further clarifaction. Psychologists and scientists share 3 interrelated goals: measurement and description, understanding and prediction and application & control. Measurement and description: requires that an investigator figure out a way to measure the phenomenon under study. The first goal of psych. is to develop measurement techniques that make it possible to describe behaviour clearly and precisely. Understanding and prediction: scientists believe that they understand events when they can explain the reasons for the occurrence of events. Scientists make and test predictions called a hypothesis. A hypothesis is a tentative statements about the relationship between two or more variables. Variables are any measurable conditions, events, characteristics, or behaviours that are controlled or observed in a study. Application and control: scientists hope that the info they find is good for everyday problems. Once ppl understand phenomenon they can have more control over it.