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It is us the tentative explanation of behaviour and the thesis/ main idea of the research

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Hypothesis

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Difference between non experimental hypothesis and the experimental hypothesis?

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Non experimental hypothesis - statement of your predictions about the association between the variables

Experimental hypothesis- predicts the effects of specified antecedents on behaviour.

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An experimental hypothesis has several characters:

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Must be synthetic statement
Testable
Falsifiable
Parsimonious
Fruitful

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The process of reasoning from specific cases to more general principles

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Induction

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It is the process of reason- ing from general principles to predictions about specific instances

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Deduction

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the knack of finding things that are not be- ing sought

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Serendipity

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A statement that is always true

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Analytical Statement

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statement that is always false.

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Contradictory Statement

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Beginning section of a research report that guides the reader toward your research hy- pothesis; includes a selective review of relevant, recent research

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Introduction

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The development of ideas from hunches; knowing directly without reasoning from objective data

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Intuition

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Statistical reviewing procedure that uses data from similar studies to summarize

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Meta- analysis

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What do you mean by parsimonious

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Simple

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Lead to another research

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Fruitful

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