Chapter 6 Flashcards
A statement that is always true.
Analytic statement
Characteristics of a good hypothesis
- Synthetic Statements
- Testable Statements
- Falsifiable Statements
- Parsimonious Statements
- Fruitful Statements
A statement that is always false.
Contradictory statement `
The process of reasoning from general principles to specific instances; most useful for testing the principles of a theory
Deductive model
Concluding section of the research report, used to integrate the experimental findings into the existing body of knowledge, showing how the current research advances knowledge, increases generalizability of known effects, or contradicts past findings.
Discussion
A statement that is a tentative explanation of an event or behavior; it predicts the effects of specified antecedent conditions on a measured behavior.
Experimental hypothesis
A statement that is worded so that it is falsifiable, or disprovable, by experimental results.
Falsifiable statement
A statement that leads to new studies.
Fruitful statement
The thesis, or main idea, of an experiment or study consisting of a statement that predicts the relationship between at least two variables.
Hypothesis
The process of reasoning from specific cases to more general principles to form a hypothesis.
Inductive model
Beginning section of a research report that guides the reader toward your research hypothesis; includes a selective review of relevant, recent research.
Introduction
The development of ideas from hunches; knowing directly without reasoning from objective data.
Intuition
A statistical reviewing procedure that uses data from many similar studies to summarize and quantify research findings about individual topics.
Meta-analysis
A statement of predictions of how events, traits, or behaviors might be related, but not a statement about cause and effect.
Non Experimental hypothesis
A statement that is simple and does not require many supporting assumptions.
Parsimonious statement
