PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Institutional Review Board, American Psychological Association, Type I And Type Ii Errors
21 Nov 2016
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If data are the ingredients of scientific knowledge, then research methods provide the recipe; sometimes methods are complex. Psychologists do not seem to provide firm answers to questions about the mind and. What they offer instead are methods for generating research aimed at these questions. They seem more interested in the research process itself than in the answers their research is supposed to be seeking. Psychologists never really expect to reach a final answer to any question. Psychologists are sensitive and sometimes even self conscious about research methodology, the way they use statistics and even about the basic procedures they use to draw theoretical inferences from data. Sometimes the emphasis on methods and process is seen as a sign of weakness, even by psychologists themselves (cid:498)psychic envy(cid:499) Real science is the seeking of new knowledge. There is a fundamental difference between scientific and technical training.
