PSYC 201W Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: American Psychological Association, Google Scholar, Modus Tollens
19 Mar 2014
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The initial observation and question: research ideas can be formed rapidly,slowly, from person exp, daily events, prior research and theory ideas, real-world problems, or serendipity. Personal exp"s is key to notice and reflect on something important, interesting, or perplexing about our own or other ppl"s behavior. Prior research and theory studies stimulate other studies, where something they observe from theirs or others work lead to new q"s theories = key source of research ideas; theories are tested by deriving predictions, which are tested thru research. Serendipity accidental discovery of something important by chance (usually while looking for something else) and having the wisdom and curiosity to recognize that may be on to an important discovery. We do not conduct study immediately after having research idea. We first examine previous research on topic, where it provides info of how other scientists defined, measured, and examined the concept. We likely want to expand more and eliminate those limitations from previous studies.
