day 2 psych defining

focuses on description, explanation, and prediction

focuses on the last one in psychology, Change.

rsearching method to further comprehend what your trying to know about.

an educated guess. Short prediction of how one variable causes an effect to another variable.

Experimental- identify cause and effect

Description- Observe, collect, and record data

Correlational- identify relationships asses how one variable predicts the other.

Biological-identifying biological contributing factors.

stats used to evaluate data/ outcome. Use metananalysis if needed

Let someone else read it and revise it.

a scientific procedure that determines whther variables manipulated by the experimentor have casual effects on other variables

variable that is manipulated to determine its casual effect on a dependent variable


"VIOLENT TV SHOWS causes aggression"

variable that is being measured it is affected by independent variable

"violent t.v shows causes AGGRESSION"

extra stuff stays the same.

group of people in which they do not get nothing of what they are experimenting

"gets apple juice instead of alcohol"

get a diversified group to support your conclusion

One person is the experiment, the other is not

both of the participants do not know.