Psychology 290
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- EMPIRICISM
- USE OF OJECTIVE OBSERVATIONS TO ANSWER A QUESTION ABOUT THE NATURE OF OF BEHAVIOR
- APPLIED RESEARCH
- CONDUCTED TO ADDRESS ISSUES IN WHICH THERE ARE PRACTICAL PROBLEMS AND POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS
- BASIC RESEARCH
- TRIES TO ANSWER THE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS ABOUT THE NATURE OF BEHAVIOR
- TEMPORAL PRECEDENCE
- PART OF CAUSAL INFERENCE, THE CAUSE PRECEDES THE EFFECT IN A TIME SEQUENCE
- GOALS OF SCIENCE
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TO DESCRIBE BEHAVIOR
TO PREDICT BEHAVIOR
TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF BEHAVIOR
TO UNDERSTAND OR EXPLAIN BEHAVIOR - HYPOTHESIS
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A STATEMENT MAKES AN ASSERTION ABOUT WHAT IS TRUE IN A PARTICULAR SITUATION.
A STATEMENT ASSERTING THAT TWO OR MORE VARIABLES ARE RELATED TO ONE ANOTHER - FALSIFIABLE
- CAN GET DISCONFIRMING EVIDENCE
- ABSTRACT
- BRIEF SUMMARY OF ARTICLE OR RESEARCH REPORT
- PARSIMONIOUS
- AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE
- TESTABLE
- CAN BE OBSERVED
- AUTONOMY
- PRINCIPLE THAT INDIVIDUALS IN RESEARCH INVESTIGATIONS ARE CAPABLE OF MAKING A DECISION OF WHETHER OR NOT TO PARTICIPATE
- BENEFICENCE
- PRINCIPLE THAT RESEARCH SHOULD HAVE BENEFICIAL EFFECTS WHILE MINIMIZING ANY HARMFUL EFFECTS
- CONFIDENTIALITY
- ANONYMITY OF INFORMATION,KEEPING INFORMATION SECURE FROM OTHERS IN A VOW OF CONFIDENCE
- PLAGIARISM
- PRESENTATION OF DATA OR ANOTHER'S WORK AS ONE'S OWN
- IRB
- INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD, AN ETHICS REVIEW COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED TO REVIEW RESEARCH PROPOSALS
- INFORMED CONSENT
- THE PRINCIPLE THAT PARTICIPANTS IN AN EXPERIMENT BE INFORMED IN ADVANCE OF ALL ASPECTS OF THE RESEARCH THAT MIGHT INFLUENCE THIER DECISION TO PARTICIPATE
- CONFOUNDING VARIABLES
- A VARIABLE THAT IS NOT CONTROLLED IN A RESEARCH INVESTIGATION
- DEPENDENT VARIABLE
- THE VARIABLE THAT IS THE SUBJECT'S RESPONSE TO AND DEPENDENT ON, THE LEVEL OF THE MANIPULATED INDEPENDENT VARIABLE
- INTERNAL VALIDITY
- THE CERTAINTY WITH WHICH RESULTS OF AN EXPERIMENT CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE MANIPULATION OF THE INDEPENDENT VARIABLE RATHER THAT TO SOME OTHER CONFOUNDNG VARIABLE
- OPERATIONAL DEFINITION
- DEFINITION OF A CONCEPT THAT SPECIFIES THE OPERATION USED TO MEASURE OR MANIPULATE THE CONCEPT
- EXTERNAL VALIDITY
- THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE RESULTS OF AN EXPERIMENT MAY BE GENERALIZED
- MEDIATING VARIABLE
- PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESSES THAT MEDIATE THE EFFECTS OF A SITUATIONAL VARIABLE ON A PARTICULAR RESPONSE