Usefulness of Research Flashcards
1
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How is psychology useful
A
research that has applications to real life
2
Q
How is there limited usefullness
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research that lack credibility or has limited applications beyond research setting
3
Q
Positions of usefulness of research debate
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Psychological research is useful when it adds to our knowledge and can be applied to real-world situations
Some psychological research is not useful as lacks credibility or has limited applications
> Freud interpretation questioned
4
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How to structure paragraphs
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PARA 1
useful as improve our understanding (of disorders + how to treat them)
x2 studies of how it does this
PARA 2
some research lack credibility
eg. goulds review should IQ tests are culturally biased so limits usefulnness
but others have practical applications
PARA 3
