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Psychology Methods
Drake Class
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Basic Research | Research to understand a psychological phenomenon rather than to solve a particular problem |
| Applied Research | Reseacrh to solve a certain problem |
| Evaluation research | using behavioral research methods to assess the effects of social or institutional programs on behavior |
| EEmipircism | practice of relying on observations to draw conclusions about the world |
| publc verification | research must be available for others to observe, replicate, and verify |
| solvable problems | questions that can be answered |
| pseudoscience | information that has not been proven through scientific inquiry |
| theory | attempts to explain how and why a phnomenon occurs |
| model | explain how a phenomenon occurs |
| post hoc explanations | explanations made after the fact |
| priori | explanations made before collecting the data |
| hypothesis | scientific proposition that logically follows from a theory |
| deduction | a process of reasoning from a general proposition to a specific implications of that proposition |
| induction | abstracting a hypothesis from a collection of facts |
| empirical generalizations | hypothesises made from observed patterens |
| falsifiability | theories must be open to be proven wrong |
| methodological pluralism | using many different methods and designs |
| strategy of strong inference | pitting two opposing theories against each other |
| conceptual definitions | dictionary definitions |
| operational definitions | concrete, situation-specific terms |
| null findings | results that show certain varibles don't relate to behavior |
| descriptive research | describes behavior, thoughts or feelings |
| correlational research | investigates relationships among various psychological variables |
| experimental research | research that determines whether certain variables cause changes in another |
| quasi-experimental research | research that studies events that are unable to be controled |
| law | description of a natural phenomenon that invariably holds true under specific conditions and will occur under certain circumstances |
| apa | all published data must avialable for at least 5 years after publication |
| schema | cognitivw generlization that organizes and guides the processing of information |
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