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Mind Map by Shannon Crane, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Shannon Crane
over 7 years ago
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The Research Enterprise In
Psychology
- Goals of Scientific
Enterprise
- 1.Measurement & Description: Measure ways under study and to understand behaviour
- 2. Understanding and Prediction: using
hypothesis
- 3. Application and Control: Gathering information that goes with solving everyday life problems
- 1.Measurement & Description: Measure ways under study and to understand behaviour
- Steps in a Scientific Investigation
- Step 1. Formulate a Testable Hypothesis. Translate a theory into a hypothesis, and to be a usable hypothesis
it needs to be a operational definition. Which allows the action to be measured or a controlled variable.
- Step 2: Select the Research Method and Design the Study: Putting the hypothesis into an empircal test and getting participates to participate in the experiment
- Step 3: Collect the Data: is required for the experiment
- Step 4. Anallze the Data and Draw Conclusion: Reasearchers use statistics to
analyze their data
- Step 5: Report the Findings: The last step is for researchers to share their data and get positive
feedback to improve their work
- Step 1. Formulate a Testable Hypothesis. Translate a theory into a hypothesis, and to be a usable hypothesis
it needs to be a operational definition. Which allows the action to be measured or a controlled variable.
- Advantages of the Scientific Approach
- First is the clarity and precision which is specifies in exact and the second is relative
intolerance of error and the ideas are brought to empirical test.
- First is the clarity and precision which is specifies in exact and the second is relative
intolerance of error and the ideas are brought to empirical test.
- Independent and Dependent
Variables
- Independent Variable is where the experimenter is in control and
manipulates the variable also consist of the experimental group
that also get special instructions
- Dependent Variable is where the experimenter does nothing with the group
they observe as is, and the controlled group is where there is no specific group
given.
- Independent Variable is where the experimenter is in control and
manipulates the variable also consist of the experimental group
that also get special instructions
- Naturalistic Observation
- Naturalistic observation is where
researchers study people without
distrupting their environment
- Researchers are able to learn
how people can go about
doing their daily lives
without having to change
anything, they can get a more real answer.
- Naturalistic observation is where
researchers study people without
distrupting their environment
- Case Studies
- Investigating certain psychological
disorders and providing researchers
with real life theories.
- Investigating certain psychological
disorders and providing researchers
with real life theories.
- Surveys
- Allows researchers to
ask questions and do
interview as part of
their studies to collect
specific behaviour
- Allows researchers to
ask questions and do
interview as part of
their studies to collect
specific behaviour
- Descriptive Statistics
that organizes and
summarizes the data
- The median, mean and mode are used to find
the exact scores, averages and most frequent
scores within a survey.
- The median, mean and mode are used to find
the exact scores, averages and most frequent
scores within a survey.
- Sampling Bias
- Its to collect data
from a much larger
population
- Representative population
involves an empirical
research of the population
- Its to collect data
from a much larger
population
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