PSYC 2001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Falsifiability, Psychometrics, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
14 Jul 2020
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Way of thinking: producers in terms of research are those who perform research such as research assistance and lab volunteers, academic jobs, and research jobs (government, hospitals). Observable behaviours are things such as smiling, frowning, hitting and responses to questions, unobservable psychological attributes are attitudes, emotions and self-esteem. The who involves determining who your participants will be and how you"ll be collecting them. The what involves determining whether or not you"ll be using experimental or correlational research and what variables you"re interested in. Anatomy of a research article: the five components of a research article are (1) abstract, (2) introduction, (3) methods, (4) results, and (5) discussion, an abstract is a summary of the entire research article. Measured variables are observed and recorded and can be direct (e. g. ask someone what their gender is) or abstract (observe what their gender is based on looks).
