PSYC 2017 Study Guide - Operational Definition, Artificiality
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Inductive reasoning- understanding a specific case and creating a generalization. Deductive reasoning- understanding a specific concept and applying it to a general instance. Hypothesis: the specific and logical prediction for the solution to a problem. Testing should include a means of confirmation and disconfirmation (falsification) Control: the elimination of extraneous variables that could affect the outcome of the experiment. Operational definition: the specified definition of the concepts studied in the experiment. Replication: the ability to repeat or reproduce the results of a study by a different researcher or in a new setting. Purpose: to show causation between the manipulated variable and the result. Causation means that you affected the effect affect: verb-to change effect: noun-the result of a cause. Objective observation- willing to accept other alternative explanations when observing. Some factors varied and some factors constant. Artificiality- the more unlike real life, too controlled.