chapter two discussion questions

Question 1

difference between informal and formal hypothesis

Answer 1

informal-motivates research

formal-more like prediction

Question 2

different sources for researching psychological studies

Answer 2

psychINFO

google scholar

Question 3

how to search psych info

Answer 3

look at terms in thesaurus

use standard psychological terms

use DOI to find full text articles

use parenthesis when searches become lenthy and complicated

use asterisk when wanting to search for different variations of the same word (ex roman* when looking for romantic or romance)

Question 4

cons of psychINFO

Answer 4

what your results are depend on what your library subscribes to

Question 5

uses of and or or not in psychINFO and gogle scholar

Answer 5

and-forces both conditions to show up in search

or-broaden a search that is too narrow

not-exclude sources from results

Question 6

difference between google scholar and psychINFO

Answer 6

google scholar uses entire internet

psych scholar uses only what library is subscribed to

Question 7

cons of google scholar

Answer 7

Because Google Scholar ranks by number of citation / relevancy, the ranking list can be easily manipulated

Question 8

anatomy of a research article

Answer 8

abstract-brief summary of article

intro-explains problem under investigation, past research, and method

methodology-detailed description of study

Results-objective report of studies results

discussion-interpretation of study results

refrences-work cited