PSYC 3301 Quiz: Research Methods Review
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Review of topics for exam i: experimental psychology. Resources: class notes, posted powerpoints, methods textbook, statistics textbook, online companion websites for both books, graded homework, graded activity, graded quiz, your instructor, & your classmates: ways of acquiring knowledge. Tenacity: information is accepted as true because it has always been believed or because superstition supports it. Intuition: information is accepted on the basis of a hunch or gut feeling . Authority: a person relies on information or answers from an expert in the subject area. Empirical: uses observation or direct sensory experience to obtain knowledge. Faith: a variant of the method of authority in which people have unquestioning trust the authority figure and, therefore, accept information from the authority without doubt or challenge, steps of the scientific method. Step 1: observe behavior or other phenomena: people commonly tend to generalize beyond the actual observations.
