KINE 2P08 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nomothetic, Dependent And Independent Variables
16 Dec 2016
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Authority is not a bad source, but experts often disagree. Panacea = cure for everything, science is not a panacea. What is the language of research: empirical, theoretical, nomothetic, probabilistic. Empirical: our observations or measurements of reality, variables: example: anxiety (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t see it (cid:271)ut it exists, we can try to see it from behaviour. What is a variable: anything that can change or anything that can take on more than one value. Ideas about how some aspect of the world works: theory > hypothesis. Nomothetic: research that generally pertains to most cases on most occasions. Idiographic: research that focuses on an individual, unique, or singular case (opposite of.
