PS101 Chapter Notes -Operational Definition
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1: develop measurement techniques that make it possible to describe behaviour clearly and precisely. Select the research method and design the study. 1: figure out how to put the hypothesis to an empirical test, participants or subjects, are the persons or animals whose behaviour is systematically observed in a study. 1: data collection techniques are procedures for making empirical observations and measurements. 1: researchers use statistics to analyze their data and to decide whether their hypotheses have been supported. 1: a journal is a periodical that publishes technical and scholarly material, usually in a narrowly defined area of inquiry. Direct observation observers are trained to watch and record behaviour as objectively and. They may use some instrumentation, such as a stop. Subjects administered a series of written questions designed to obtain information about attitudes, opinions and specific aspects of their behaviour. A face -to-face dialogue is conducted to obtain information about specific aspects of a subjects behaviour.
