Steps In Designing & Implementing Psychological Research Flashcards
(35 cards)
Number 2 doing psych
Discovering what influences how individuals feel, think, behave
Number 3 doing psych
Determining the consequences of how ppl feel, think, behave (manipulation, experimental design)
Number 4 of doing psych
Exploring ppl perspectives and meanings they attach to things (qualitative data, interview)
Number 5 of doing psych
Examining how ideas events and things are represented in language and made sense of (discourse analysis approach, interviews etc)
Research involves
Asking questions and making predictions. Gathering data. Generating explanations
Epistemology is
Theory of knowledge
Two types of epistemological frameworks:
Positivism
Empiricism
Positivism is the
The belief that there is an objective and knowable world
Empiricism
Gathering knowledge via the senses. Or facts from experience.
Hypothetico-deductivism
Deductive…using the scientific method to reduce to supporting a hypothesis prediction. Not actually proving a theory but gathering support for it
What is the 1st in the 5 criteria that apply to the statement of a hypothesis?
- Stated on declarative form (declaring something)
2nd criteria for a hypothesis
- Posits a relationship (usually casual) between variables
Number three of required criteria of a hypothesis
Reflects theory or body of literature
Number 4 & 5 criteria of a hypothesis
Brief
Testable
IV is
What we manipulate
DV
Influenced by the IV and what we measure
In True experiments levels of the IV are determined by the
Researcher
Conclusions of true research are
Change of the IV CAUSES A CHANGE IN THE DV
In quasi-experiments levels of the IV variable are
Pre-existing
Conclusion of quasi-experiments
IV is related to the DV
Where we don’t have random assignment we have a
Quasi-experiment. Ie movies and experts (pre-existing groups)
Directional hypotheses are the most
Powerful but we need more research backing for these
What are the 4 types of measurement?
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio
To operationalise our variable it means…
How we are going to turn them into numbers