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Chapter 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Social scientific research methods | enable an I/O psychologist to study a specific issue objectively |
| objectivity | is the unbiased approach to observation and interpretations of behavior |
| How do we acquire/gain knowledge? Who do you get knowledge from? | Ways of knowing: practice, experience, learning, reading *common sense, method of authority, intuition, most people use science to gain knowledge *the goals of I/O psy include the ability to describe, explain, and predict phenomena *as applied science |
| As applied science | I/O psy also has the goal of attempting to control all outcomes |
| Research methods steps: | *formulation of research problem- explicit not broad *formulation of research hypothesis->educated guess tentative answer to *review literature *define & clarify the variables- the work *research design |
| Research methods steps cont'd: | *measurement of variable- measure your variable before research design the assignment of numbers, symbols or numerals to event, obj ideas according to rule *method of conducting the study- population (what was studied) |
| Research methods steps cont'd: | apparatus (what was used to collect data ex. questionnaire/survey) & procedure *data analysis- descriptive & inferential (describe what you are going to do- which group did better...) *conclusion |
| Types of research: | experimental research quasi experiments correlation research the case study observational research self reports |
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