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CH 3
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
04/12/2011

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def: basic research + eg
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to understand fundamental psychological processe
-eg shadowing + dichotic listening task --> attentional capacity
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def: applied research + eg
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to solve real world problems
-eg simulated driving task --> effects of cell phone use on driving (attention)
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lab research advantages
Definition
-greater control
-experimental realism - Ps become deeply involved in exp, high impact
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field research advantages +eg
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-more realistic
-mundane realism - how closely it mirrors RL
-provides support for findings from lab research
-eg Dutton and Aron susp bridge study (accounted for 2 factor theory of love. for control, duplicated in lab)
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quantitative research
Definition
data presented as numbers, statistical analysis used
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qualitative research
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analytical narratives/interviews, content analysis used
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def: empirical Q
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-answerable with data
-precisely defined terms
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def: operational definitions
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variables defined in terms of a clearly specified set of operations, measures, procedures
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def: converging operations
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-understanding of phenomena increases as studies with different operational definitions converge on same result
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ways to develop empirical question (4)
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1. observing behaviour
2. solution to applied problem
3. theory testing
4. unanswered questions from past research
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def: theory (4)
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set of logically consistent statements about a phenomenon
1. summarizes existing empirical knowledge
2. organized in form of laws
3. tentative explanation
4. basis for making predictions
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theory creation: steps (6) + (2)
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1. observation
2. induction (specific --> general)
3. theory
4. deduction (general --> specific)
5. hypothesis (predict specific outcomes)
6. experiment

7. confirmed+induction/disconfirmed
8. supported/false
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attributes of good theories (3)
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1. productivity (generate research, advance knowledge)
2. falsification (able to be disproven. resistant = probably true)
3. parsimony (minimum number of constructs/assumptions necessary to explain phenom + predict outcomes)
-eg learning theory > psychoanalysis
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def: partial replication
Definition
replicates portion of earlier work + extends (adds feartures)
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