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| the study of behavior and the mind using science as an objective way to answer questions |
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Researchers define, classify & catalogue events and their relationships
ex. how many personality traits exist |
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| when researchers try to identify relationships among variables in order to predict future events |
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| correlation research/ prediction example |
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| relation between the independent variable and the dependent variable |
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| seek to uncover and understand issues |
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| applying the knowledge they gained to help others |
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DEC-descriptive, correlational, experimental,
all use examples of people |
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| logically organized ideas that help explain phenomena |
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| like a theory but less sturdy and smaller scale |
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| procedure used to define the concept under examination, defining all the concepts in your study ex. what is "fun"? |
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| what you alter, control to observe how affected it is |
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| after manipulating the independent, observe the changes in the dependent |
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making sure the experiment isn't harmful strategies are :Debriefing
Cost-benefit analysis
Institutional Review Board |
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| people have a 50 50 chance of getting either option |
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| descriptive design and problems |
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| observe and characterize nature; atypical data sampling and biased review |
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| one person is observed and studied |
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| A self-report technique designed to solicit conscious responses. Often employs random selection: Population of people with equal chance of being chosen to participate |
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| observing and recording behavior in natural environments ex. studying apes in the wild |
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| To detect naturally occurring relationships; assess how well one variable predicts another between -1 and 1 that determines the relatedness; survey 0 is no relation |
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| problems with correlation |
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| correlation does not equal causation. or the sampling group does not represent society |
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| repeating a study with different subjects to see if the finding is translatable into different groups |
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