PS280 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Blind Experiment, Testability, Meta-Analysis
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Chapter 5: research methods in the study of abnormal behaviour. Science and scientific method: testability and replicability. Replicability: can we replicate this study and acquire the same results. Need confidence that the study has generalizability. See if you can get the same results with a different style study in a different setting: therefore assume that the results are valid, the role of theory. Looking for commonality that links two aspects of a study (iv and dv) Gives a sense of how you can explain data in a broader context. Research methods: the case study, epidemiological research, the correlational method, the experiment. The pursuit of systematized knowledge through observation: systematize the way you look at information, how you interpret it, connecting the data in-front of you. Testability and replicability: a hypothesis must be agreeable to systematic testing that could prove it to be false, hypothesis: Expectations about what should occur if a theory is true.
