PSYC30800 Lecture 3: Research Methods- Chapter 3
26 Sep 2016
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Ideas stem from: animal research, developmental research, cognitive researcher. Informal to formal sources of ideas (your own ideas, research literature, current theories, distant colleagues, departmental colleagues, research team, mentors. Animal research has decreased (society, change to cognitive not behavioral. Studying internal processing: perception, attention, language, memory, thinking. How can you develop research ideas? case studies extrapolate from similar studies reverse commonsense hypotheses if a is true, b should be true bring together different areas of research that aren"t typically studied. Novel results (from student research) : it is difficult to develop research no one has came up with yet. However, there are different cultures approaches and extrapolating off recent research. Internet based research: familiar with related research, keep web page simple, follow ethical regulations, give adequate description of research, check new website thoroughly, find out how to disseminate information about your study.
