PSYC 2030 Lecture Notes - Endangerment, Anthony Greenwald, Psychological Methods
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How to ask and answer questions: how to formulate questions. There are concerns in psych about the validity of questions & reserch: is psych in crisis. Psychologists in 2008 picked 3 high prestige journals: 33 studies from each, 100 total, hoped for comparable/similar results, 1/3 of studies got comparable results. Here we focus on the process of collection. How do you put together a study. What does it mean to have a finding. Help us become informed consumers when encountering psychological studies. How have we come to know what we know about this content. Box: state 1, manipulate & observe, sound/touch/smell/weight/visual inference of packaging, assume, external package is connected with internal content, extremely relevent or extremely deceptive, process with caution, eliminate variables, context, process of elimination (deduction) Normative accounts of research: what this course is about. Descriptive accounts of research: james d watson, horrible guy, terrible memoir, breaks all rules. 3 main units: t, t, v.
