CRIM 220 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Beck Depression Inventory, Research, Luka Magnotta
28 Nov 2016
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Thinking about research: quantitative approaches, qualitative approaches, mixed approaches. Positivism: valid knowledge is only scientific knowledge. Truth can only be attained by relying on observations of concrete phenomenon. Introspective and intuitive knowledge is rejected: realism: Only one reality exists, independent of researchers, awaiting discovery. It is the researcher"s responsibility to uncover the facts : truth across all organisms: General principles of behaviour, not essentially different from any other organisms. Theories should be simple, comprehensive and adaptable to any situation: focused on the cause and effect: Predictor variables (cause) have outcome variables (effect) Avoidance of those variables outside of the black box : objectivity: Don"t get too close, depersonalize the research situation, and keep your distance. Introduces error (bias) and contaminates the results: social facts: Focus is on social facts as casuality. Monolithic forces influences us all, but in different ways (e. g. education, religion, law) Therefore, we must aggregate data to reduce noise: deductive approach:
