PSYC 2030 Study Guide - Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Serendipity, Meta-Analysis

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The initial hunches, questions, insights + the resulting conjectural statements or suppositions that give direction to researchers" observations. Discussion sections of research reports (examples in text) Journals + books that publish detailed reviews on particular topics. Being able to specify a predictor doesn"t mean we can specify a cause. Used when researchers want to maximize their own confidence that one variable is the cause of an outcome, they often turn to a special case of studying relationships. Often used in medical research simplest design. 2 conditions, each unit sampled (ex: patients) is assigned to one of the conditions by a randomizing procedure. One condition would be the test medication, the other serves as control. Control group receives the best currently available treatment (if one exists - for purpose of comparison), or a placebo. Box 2. 1 replications: the duplication of an experimental observation varied replications: when a new variable is intentionally introduced.