PSY100Y5 Chapter 2: PSYChapter 2
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Chapter 2: the research enterprise in psychology: the scientific approach to behavior. Different types of research=different types of research strategies. Qualitative researchers tend to let the meanings assigned to the experience emerge from the data they collect (words and narratives) Quantitative methods are designed primarily to examine cause-and-effect relationships where variables may be defined ahead of time and where the data are numerical. Currently dominant: goals of the scientific enterprise. Scientific investigations are systematic follow an orderly pattern: step 1: formulate a testable hypothesis, translate a theory or intuitive idea into a hypothesis-expressed as a prediction, must be formed precisely and clearly defined. Two major advantages: clarity and precision enhance communication about important ideas. Research methods differing approaches to observation, measurement, manipulation, and control of variables in empirical studies. Intolerance for error-trained to be skeptical, review others work. When an extraneous variable is confounded with an.
