PSYC 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Operational Definition, Mental Chronometry, Science News
10 Dec 2017
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Basics of research: participants (the who) ch. 7: sampling technique, variables (the what) ch. 5: what kind, how are they operationalized, how are they measured (reliability and validity, level of measurement (determines type of statistics, design (the how) ch. Basic and applied research: basic research, labs, build knowledge on how mind/body works, possibly applied later, applied research. In the real-world: directly applicable/studied, transitional research, linking basic to applied. In order to make a causal statement you need covariance they have to happen at the same time and, you need the spanking to happen before the aggressive behavior. Two titles have causal claims (cid:862)(cid:272)ause(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)makes(cid:863) Criteria for causal claims: covariation of cause and effect, temporal precedence, alternative explanation (elimination) Avoid direct quotes and paraphrase instead: changing a few words here and there is not paraphrasing (that is still plagiarism, paraphrasing needs to change most the words and the grammatical structure, paraphrasing uses your words and sentence structure!
