Chapter 1: Research
Subject:
Psychology [1]
Tags:
Validity [2]
Statistics [3]
Science [4]
Pseudoscience [8]
Convergent validity [10]
Research [11]
health [14]
Technology [15]
Human development [16]
behavior [17]
Love [19]
Psychoanalysis [20]
Human behavior [21]
Attachment theory [22]
Personal life [23]
Research How you can learn to love it, or at least not fear it! Pseudoscience Demonstrations of benefit are based on anecdotes or testimonials The individual?s baseline abilities and the possibility of spontaneous improvement not considered Related scientific procedures are disavowed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vPC7nPX-X4 Why is this important? Scientific Method Identify and analyze problem Hypothesis based on observation, theory, previous findings Sample, measures, design, procedure Collect data and analyze Draw conclusions and revised theories Discussion of your articles ? how do they illustrate the scientific method (or are they pseudoscience?) Measurement methods Reporting Self-report Informant Psychophysiological Neuroimaging Observation Naturalistic Structured