Methods in Psychology

I. Questionnaire findings: Voting, Voting Preferences, Secret, College transition

II. Understanding understanding

Description vs Causation: Correlational vs experimental thinking

Levels of analysis

III. Basic Methods in Psychology

Measurement: Operational definition

Bias in self-reports – Lou Dobbs (5:30)

IV. Designing psychological studies

Correlational approaches: Try it out.

Experimental approaches

How many people?

How to select them? (Generalizability)

How many groups? (At least two)

What people should be in what groups?