hello class welcome back to
developmental psychology this is your
professor
Baljit Nagi for today's lecture we're going
to focus
on the psychology of science
the information on the slide you see on
your screen can be found at oer
textbooks
at open textbook library so let's get
started
so we're going to review the four parts
of the scientific research
the first part research question
that is basically a question a
researcher may want to ask
about an event phenomenon that's taking
place
that they may want to find more answers
about
second the research hypothesis is
basically a statement
that the researcher has made
about the actual event or phenomenon
or occasion or situation that's taking
place
the independent variable is a variable
that the researcher can manipulate
and the dependent variable is the
variable that the researcher wants to
measure
now in our next slide we'll go more in
depth
into the research method process
but just for now what i want you to do
is just think about
what are some things out there events
phenomenons that if you are a researcher
you would want more information about or
would want to study
this could be anything that you find
interesting
about human behavior development
things are going on in the world
and then you can create a question about
that
and once you create a question you
create your own hypothesis
which is that statement
and then of course setting up a research
with the independent independent
variable and the dependent variable
and conducting that research to get the
answers
you want to your research question
thank you for joining me today to talk
about just basically the surface level
of the scientific research method again
if you have any questions you can always
contact me at the information that you
can find on the syllabus of the course
i hope you have a great day stay safe
and i'll see you next time bye
