PSY 250 : PSY250chapter2notes.docx
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Basic/ empirical (advance out understanding of behavior: unimportant questions, answer is already firmly established, replicated by other researchers, variables have minimal effects on behavior of interest, no reason to believe variables related. Reasons of reviewing the literature: getting ideas about research questions (theories, empirical questions, avoiding needless duplication of effort, replication and extension, getting ideas about ways to measure different variables, ways to design your study, learn from others mistakes. The peer review process is rime honored, but has problems: personal feelings of reviewers can bias review, agreement with findings, effect of the reputation of the author blind review, low rate of inter reviewer agreement, on average, articles in referred journals are of higher quality and are preferred as sources, if the articles are referred, it authors have to pay to publish there, who publishes the journal, journals in psychology, social science citations index.
