CRCJ 3001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Discriminant Validity, Construct Validity, Convergent Validity

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 3001
• Professor: Donna Mailloux

Document Summary

Empiricism: knowledge is acquired via sense and observation or personal experience. Science: process of systematically gathering and evaluating empirical evidence to answer questions and test ideas that is publicly verifiable. Approach to acquiring knowledge that involves formulating specific questions and then systematically finding answers. Process of systematically gathering and evaluating empirical evidence to answer questions and test ideas that is publicly verifiable. Scientists seek to describe, explain, predict and control events. The most fundamental task is to describe a phenomena: description, explanation. Scientists also want to understand why those phenomena occur or the causes of that behavior: an initial explanation of what causes an outcome is what is called a. Hypothesis : as empirical evidence accumulates, scientists then build theories which explain the how and the why events are related. Strongest means determining whether their explanations, or hypotheses, for events are correct. Prediction is also important in the application of science.