PSYC 334 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Speed Dating, Neuropeptide, Sexual Arousal

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 334
• Professor: Ryan Curtis

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Often uses diverse samples of people drawn from all walks of life and from around the world. Examines varied types of family, friendship, and romantic relationships. Frequently studies those relationships over long periods of time. Studies both the pleasant and the unpleasant aspects of relationships. First step in any scientific endeavor is to ask a question, some emerging from personal experience. Questions can also arise from previous research; studies that answer one question may bring new ones. Theories strive to offer explanations for relational events. Useful theories both account for existing facts and make new predictions, studies often seek to test these hypothesis. Researchers may seek to describe events as they naturally occur, delineating the patterns they observe and as fully and accurately as they can. Researchers can also seek to establish he causal connections between events to determine which events have meaningful effects on subsequent outcomes and which do not.