Psych 1004 -- Exam One 2024/2025
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Basic Research - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-goal is to enhance the general body of
scientific knowledge
-attempts to answer fundamental questions about the nature of behavior
What type of research is this? Example: Studying how memory works - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔basic research
translational research - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-uses lessons from basic research
to develop and test applications to heath care, treatments, etc.
applied research - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-work conducted in real life contexts
-research into issues where there are practical problems and potential
solutions
-much is conducted by governments and organizations for their own
purposes
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,empiricism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the idea that knowledge comes from
observations
Skepticism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the philosophy that ideas must be evaluated
on the basis of careful logic and results from scientific investigations
Theory-Data Cycle - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔THEORY leads to researchers to
pose particulars RESEARCH QUESTIONS, which lead to an appropriate
RESEARCH DESIGN. In the context of the design, researchers formulate
HYPOTHESES. Researchers collect and analyze DATA, which feed back
into the cycle.
support - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔data strengthens the theory
revision - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔non-supporting theory led to revised theories or
improved research designs
What makes good scientific theories? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Falsifiable, have
parsimony, and do not prove anything
temporal precedence - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔temporal order of events in which
the cause precedes the effect
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, covariation of cause and effect - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔effect occurs only in
presence of cause
Elimination of alternative explanations - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nothing other than
causal variable could be responsible for the observed effect
What are the goals of behavioral science? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-describe,
predict, determine the causes of, and explain behavior
Goodstein's Evolved Theory of Science - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Data plays a
central role
-Scientists are not alone
-Science is adversarial.
-Scientific evidence is peer reviewed.
Falsifiability - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔testable scientific ideas that can be falsified
by data
peer review - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔process of evaluation of the research before
it is published in a journal
Research question - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Formulated as first and most general
step in the research process; must be specific
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Basic Research - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-goal is to enhance the general body of
scientific knowledge
-attempts to answer fundamental questions about the nature of behavior
What type of research is this? Example: Studying how memory works - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔basic research
translational research - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-uses lessons from basic research
to develop and test applications to heath care, treatments, etc.
applied research - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-work conducted in real life contexts
-research into issues where there are practical problems and potential
solutions
-much is conducted by governments and organizations for their own
purposes
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,empiricism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the idea that knowledge comes from
observations
Skepticism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the philosophy that ideas must be evaluated
on the basis of careful logic and results from scientific investigations
Theory-Data Cycle - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔THEORY leads to researchers to
pose particulars RESEARCH QUESTIONS, which lead to an appropriate
RESEARCH DESIGN. In the context of the design, researchers formulate
HYPOTHESES. Researchers collect and analyze DATA, which feed back
into the cycle.
support - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔data strengthens the theory
revision - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔non-supporting theory led to revised theories or
improved research designs
What makes good scientific theories? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Falsifiable, have
parsimony, and do not prove anything
temporal precedence - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔temporal order of events in which
the cause precedes the effect
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, covariation of cause and effect - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔effect occurs only in
presence of cause
Elimination of alternative explanations - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nothing other than
causal variable could be responsible for the observed effect
What are the goals of behavioral science? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-describe,
predict, determine the causes of, and explain behavior
Goodstein's Evolved Theory of Science - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-Data plays a
central role
-Scientists are not alone
-Science is adversarial.
-Scientific evidence is peer reviewed.
Falsifiability - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔testable scientific ideas that can be falsified
by data
peer review - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔process of evaluation of the research before
it is published in a journal
Research question - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Formulated as first and most general
step in the research process; must be specific
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