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Purpose of research

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test a hypothesis

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What are the characteristics of a theory

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clear, consistent, parsimony, have scientific impact

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Explanation that has the least number of facts or principals

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parsimony

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Research process

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  1. research idea
  2. Background research
  3. hypothesis
  4. design study
  5. conduct research
  6. analyse data
  7. draw conclusions
    8 reporting results
  8. refining
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a feeling of suddenly finding something great

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serendipity

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finding previous research on the subject matter to inform future research

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background research

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A testable guess that we aim to prove false

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hypothesis

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Narrow scope of research to broad generalizations

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induction

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Broad generalizations to specifics

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deduction

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Research that reports in the form of descriptions

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qualitative

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Research that reports in the form of statistics

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quantitive

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Manipulation of one variable with the goal of finding a causal relationship

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experimental research

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Not manipulating anything, no causal explanations and descriptive findings

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descriptive research

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Accuracy in measuring what we want to

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validity

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Conducting research in a controlled setting

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good internal validity

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conducting research in the real world

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good external validity

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Having poor external validity and lots of control

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in lab experiment

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having poor internal validity and many extraneous variables

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out of lab experiment/field experiment

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Developmental research, comparing many ages at the same time

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cross sectional research

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following the same people over a long period of time

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longitudinal study

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The premise that a hypothesis should be wrong

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falsifiability

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Definition that describes what will be measured

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operational definition

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The process of doing an experiment again

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replication

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brief stories or descriptions about personal experiences, other people or events are offered as facts to support or refute a claim

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anecdotal evidence

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