Basics of Research Flashcards
What are three reasons you might not be able to trust the advice of authorities?
Could be based on unreliable research
Could be based on experience
Could be based on intuition
What are three typesof motivation biases faced when you base information on your intuition?
Focus on evidence we like best - evidence that supports out beliefs
Confirmatory hypothesis testing - questions that lead to a particular, desired outcome
Bias blind spot -belief that we are less biased than others
What are three types of cognitive biases faced when you base information on your intuition?
Availability Heuristic - persuaded by what comes easily to mind
Present/Present Bias - focus on what is readily present, failure to notice absences
Swayed by a good story - accept conclusions simply because they make sense
A description of the empirical method stating that science is intended to explain a certain proportion (but not necessarily all) of the possible cases
Probabilistic
What are two reasons you that research is a better source of information than your own experience?
Experience has no comparison group
Experience is confounded
What is a confound?
Potential alternative experience/explanation
What are the six components of an Empirical Research Article?
Abstract Introduction Method Results Discussion References
A summary of the study - hypothesis, method, results
Abstract of an Article
Explanation of topic of study
Empirical background for research
Theory being tested
Specific questions, goals, hypothesis
Introduction
Participants, materials, procedures, apparatus
Enough information that if someone wanted to repeat the study they could without contacting you
Method Section
Findings of study presented in narrative form and statistical language - with tables and graphs
Results Section
Review of research from various perspectives
Methodological strengths and weaknesses
Compare results with hypothesis and past results
Suggestions for practical application
Suggestions for future research
Discussion
A group in an experiment who receive no treatment or an alternate treatment and whose results are compared with those who do receive treatment
Comparison Group
A level of an independent variable that is intended to represent no treatment of a neutral condition
Control Group
An actor who is directed by the researcher to play a specific role in a research study
Confederate
