Intro To Research

Question 1

Limitations of empiricism in research

Answer 1

Confirmation bias, belief preservervance, availability heuristics

Question 2

Determinism and discoverability

Answer 2

Determinism: events can be predicted due to having greater chance
Discoverability: scientific methods can be discovered with confidence

Question 3

Replication

Answer 3

To ensure data is actually correct and it wasn’t biased/ rare chance. E g power posing

Question 4

Public stance on scientific findings

Answer 4

Not definite and tentative, humans want definite answers

Question 5

Public stance on scientific findings

Answer 5

Not definite and tentative, humans want definite answers

Question 6

Changing of psych recommendations

Answer 6

Little Albert experiment and recommendations were revoked after achievement theory was discovered

Question 7

Barnum effect

Answer 7

Tendency for humans to accept vague personality descriptions as true like MBTI and such