LESSON 1

• Experimental Psychology


  A branch of Psychology that focuses on conducting systematic and controlled experiments to study human behavior and cognition
• Experimental Psychology


  It is concerned with testing theories of human thoughts, emotions, activities, and beyond any aspect of being human that involves our mind
• Scientific Method


  A process of objectively establishing facts through testing and experimentation
• Observation


  The systematic noting and recording of events
• Measurement


  The assignment of numerical values to objects, events, or their characteristics according to conventional rules
• Experimentation


  A process undertaken to test a hypothesis that particular behavioral events will occur reliably in specifiable situations
• Requirements for Experimentation


  • We must have procedures for manipulating the setting
  • The predicted outcome must be observable
  • We must be able to measure the outcome
• Psychological Experiments


  • The Bobo Doll Experiment
  • The Little Albert Experiment
  • Pavlov's Dog Experiment
  • The Marshmallow Test
• Types of Psychological Research

  • Action research
  • Basic research
• Four main objectives of in Psychological Science
• Characteristic of Modern Science