PSYC11H3 : Social Psychology Review.doc
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Deductive research: attempting to move from hypothesis to observation. Demonstration: gathering data in an attempt to demonstrate a hypothesis about the associations among constructs of interest. Discovery: discovering what might be plausible causes of constructs. Falsifiability: we could conceive of a pattern of findings that would contradict the theory. Comprised of statements about associations among constructs and associations between constructs and observable indicators. Inductive research: attempting to move from observation to the development of hypothesess. Measurement research: conducted by examining whether two or more ways of measuring the same construct give the same results. Theory: a set of interrelated hypotheses that is used to explain a phenomenon and make predictions about associations among constructs relevant to the phenomenon. A theory about social behavior has three features. First, it contains constructs that are of theoretical interest and that it attempts to explicate or account for in some way. Finally, a theory incorporates hypothesized links between constructs.
