PSY 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Education Resources Information Center, Pubmed, System On A Chip
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Causation could be that your iv affects your dv. Correlation is more like 2 variables being related (2 dv are related to one another) Directionality problem is this idea that things are correlated w/o being causal. 3rd variable problem is when something outside of the 2 things aren"t related, they"re occurring bc of some 3rd variable. Research ? > lit review > develop hypothesis > design study > conduct study. Quasi exp. design is when you can"t randomly assign bc of ethics. How to build off of existing study to continue further research. Applied research that informs development or test effectiveness of intervention and prevention programs. Most research in the b science tests theories of b. Theory: systematic body of ideas that org. and explains some phenomena, generates new knowledge, and can be modified to account for new data. These make world more comprehensible, grounded in actual data.
