PSY313H5 Lecture Notes - Metatheory, Predictive Validity, Internal Validity
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How is one to make sense of this ; look for differences between research and methods used, statistical analysis. Metatheories provide an outlook on the key aspects of a large. Three major meta-theories in the area of adult development. Historically human-development has been approached by different perspectives, referred to as meta-theories. A meta-theory is a theory whose subject matter is some theory of the world or methods for accessing the world. It is an object of concern to the area in which the individual theory is conceived. Plays an essential role in research because it drives theory development and determines what data is to be collected and why, and what constitutes as a values explanation and question. 3 major theories have stood out in data collection and theory. Predominated in the first half of the 21st century when behavior psychology became dominant. All learning and everything that we are is to be acquired by experience.
