Chapter 1 Myers Book

In chapter 1 of the Myers book of Psychology is about the need for psychological science, how psychologist ask and answer questions, and statistical reasoning in everyday life of psychology. In the beggining of the chapter explains the scientific attitude of pyschologists which requires skepticism and humility. This chapter also explains the critical thinking and using the scientific method including the meanings of hypothesis, operations, replication, and theory. Other methods that psychologist use are surverys, questiom bias, correlations, and expierements. How psychologists break down expierements is by using independent and dependent variables and control and expieremental groups. In the end of the chapter psychologists sse different research methods and calculating data by using mean, median, mode, and standard deviation.