Psych Note Sept. 15
Important principles of scientific research (5 steps)
Reduce bias: researcher, participant, observer (Hawthrowne)
Eye tracker- detects eye movement. If participant knows of tracker- then participant will change eye
movement. Can be influenced to focus or not focused
Sharing results: academic journals, peer review
Peer review: other experts in a field critically reviewing your work prior to publication
Knowledge translation: moving research to others for practical use
Integrated knowledge translation
Goal: share leading evidence
Collaborating with others
Videos, posts, images
Replication: repeating studies (double checking)
Replication crisis: impossible to replicate
Research design: a set of methods that allows a hypothesis to be tested. Have variables, operational
definitions, and data
Descriptive research: equative and quantivie research (Genie Wiley)
Correlation: the degree of association
THE TEST WILL HAVE EXPERIMENTOR NAME THEIR EXPERIMENTS, SITUATIONS AND HOW THE APPLY TO
PEOPLE
Sept 20
Statistics: bigger picture, understand meaningful picture
Using statistics: we want to make conclusions about a larger group of people
Statistics helps us to understand the population
Generalization: how our findings can be applied more broadly
Ideal: large random samples
Descriptive statistics: organize, summarize and interpret data
Frequency: the number of observation that is plotted on a graph
Central Tendency: measure of the central point of the score of distribution
