APA 2180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Note-Taking
4 Apr 2016
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Sources : exising literature, social concerns, popular issues, personal experiences/interests, brainstorming with others, mentors/ supervisors. Social (usually white males, evolved to women, immigrants/religious) Temporal ime: past research may be out of date. Contextual: past 10-15 years had psychological theories brought into sports/health ield, and tested to see if theories sill hold true. Methodological: introduce new method to study research topic. Ideniicaion of a research problem: interests can be easy to come by. Deining a research problem is the fuel that drives the scieniic process (geing into speciics! E. g. which sport, imeframe, paricipaion/ commercializaion of sport) The purpose of science is to advance knowledge: look for gaps of knowledge. 1930 issue 2 of the 1st volume of research. Complexity ensure topic is not too complex for available ime/resources. Access is data able to be collected from paricipants? (e. g. professional athletes) Carefully crated summary of the recent studies conducted on a topic.
