PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sunk Costs, Hindsight Bias, Scientific Method
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Broadly: the study of behavior and thoughts. : how you behave in your workplace: personality: how our specific personality traits influence how we behave, school: family and peer dynamics, clinical: diagnosing and treating disorders, psychiatry: prescribe medicine to treat disorders. Applied research: research that aims to solve a problem: examples, counseling, clinical work, finding the best reading strategy to help students effectively learn material. These two aims are closely tied applied research can only be done with the help of basic research. In order to find answers to questions, you need a theory, or process. Guessing or speculating is not good enough you need proof. This is why we have the scientific method: hypothesize from past research (take an educated guess on what your answer might be, experiment to test your hypothesis, support or disconfirm your hypothesis using the data you found.
